Juno (Scorpiris) season 2011

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Gorgeous selection of Junos Peter !! 

[PeterT]

Thankyou Luc, Janis,
Janis, I have 4 clones of I albomarginata, they are all very similar and last year I had seeds. One was from you, two from Leonid and one from Tony Dickerson, who I believe had a different source, so I hope  they are true. Iris hypoliti flowerd so much last year that the bulbs were too small for much flowering this year -but the seed has germinated and  I may have a couple of spares.
Pictures from last year of Iris hypoliti

[David Nicholson]

Peter, wonderful shots of some beautiful plants from a master grower.

[Janis Ruksans]

Thankyou Luc, Janis,
Janis, I have 4 clones of I albomarginata, they are all very similar and last year I had seeds. One was from you, two from Leonid and one from Tony Dickerson, who I believe had a different source, so I hope  they are true. Iris hypoliti flowerd so much last year that the bulbs were too small for much flowering this year -but the seed has germinated and  I may have a couple of spares.
Pictures from last year of Iris hypoliti

Leonids albomarginata is from me but they are not clones.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Now a pair of pictures from my albomarginata and seedling of it which certainly is hybrid with some other sprecies - quite nice
Then 2 pictures of very rare atropatana
and
Iris narbuttii
very dark I. kuschakewiczii
Janis

Edit

Just got unpleasant news from Tony Hall - DNA research found that plant which I and Zhirair and someone else grew (and were very proud of it) as Iris atropatana - really is only Iris pseudocaucasica. It is allways very poor feeling when you see that plant which you supposed as great rarity turns nothing very special and really is quite common. But pseudocaucasica isn't too often offered in catalogues. So it isn't reason to fall in depression. Keep smiling!
Janis
Just found that name under picture remained atropatana - it must be corrected to pseudocaucasica.

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[Janis Ruksans]

Few of Iris aucheri
At first form from Iraq, collected by Henrik and named by him PURALBA
Then 2 forms collected at Bahce Koyu in Turkey
and few beautiful selections from Gothenburg, originally from Leylek in Turkey
Snowwhite
Indigo
Shooting Star
and 2 forms of Iris bucharica
from Baldjuan
and another from Tadjikistan (quite similar)
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Some more of today
Iris willmottiana - various color forms
Iris maracandica
Iris svetlaneae - very often offered under name of maracandica
and as last
Iris pseudocaucasica
Janis

[PeterT]

Are the willmottiana forms from different localities Janis?

[Janis Ruksans]

No, they are from same locality - Berkara gorge, Kara-tau mnt.
Janis

[PeterT]

It is very variable then. Are there many colour forms of pseudocaucasica, this one looks very bi coloured and so did Alex's. Mine, from you, is more cream - not so pale

[Janis Ruksans]

Iris pseudocaucasica is very uniform in color in Turkey (at least where I saw it), but in Talish mountains (proper Aserbaijan side, not Iranian Aserbaijan - those I didn't see) it is extremely variable covering almost all possible colors as it is in some populations of Turkish Iris persica. Unfortunately all soviet time gatherings from Talish were lost during years of growing them outside and slide film after returning from Talish was damaged in laboratory . So only memories remained... But as I know Arnis collected few of variably colored plants on Iranian Talish part, too.
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Few more Juno from today:
At first common view of Iris aucheri from Leylek. Stem lenght is 70-80 cm.
Iris bucharica from very S of Tadjikistan is so special that I even started to think that it is may be new one? I gave to it cv. name TONY in honor of Tony Hall from Kew
Very specially colored Iris fosteriana collected by me in Iran
and "for desert" - most likely new Iris species from NE Turkey
Janis

[Hans A.]

Wow - Janis and Peter, I am fascinated seeing all those magnificant plants!

[Lesley Cox]

Those Leylek irises - Holy Moly!!! and I do like 'Tony', but then I like Tony too. The fosteriana is very dramatic. Wonderful irises Janis. Thanks for showing them all.

[arillady]

All I can say is