Juno (Scorpiris) season 2011

[Janis Ruksans]

Today several pictures showing variability of Iris kuschakewiczii
and at end (to break colors) - Iris persica seedling.
Janis

[Lesley Cox]

What flower except Iris, and especially Iris persica, can display such colouring? Every shade imaginable including sand, oyster, greys, even, dare I suggest it, mud? Such subtlety is seen nowhere else. Literally everything from white to black. No wonder we all love them.

[Janis Ruksans]

Today opened first flower of Iris svetlaneae.Pity, now I will be away for 9 days and so will stop "floods" of my pictures.
Janis

[WimB]

Iris orchioides 'Aktash' in flower now.

[PeterT]

Jamie, I keep my Junoseedlings (small species) about three years in their seedlingspots as germination is very irregular and grow the older plants in same conditions as Oncos.

Sorry I have not managed to keep up with all the threads, having been away.
I find junos, especially in pots, are better kept cooler than oncos and I shade and sprinkle a little water on them, especially seedlings, through the summer.

[PeterT]

Janis, your persica collection is abolutly wonderfull. Iris Dinzard is a hybred of I maracandica. the details are on a lable under the plant...
attatched some junos from the past 3 weeks
Iris hypoliti
Iris orchioides Kyrgikistan Gold
Iris orchioides Rezaksai
Iris parvula

[PeterT]

Jamie here is a picture of Iris graeberiana dark form. it is a great garden plant and more robust than graeberiana or zenaidae. Unfortunately certain nurseries supply it as "I albomarginata of gardens", also as "I albomarginata true species"
It does not look at all like my albomarginatas from Janis, Leonid and Tony Dickerson.
also a very poor picture of I x graeberiana White Fall and Yellow Fall to show the difference, they are supplied in place of I gaeberiana by some nurseries, and also I saw a graeberiana hybred (I think it was Dark Form) grown as Iris wilmottiana, again a certain nursery has too many pictures of wilmottiana on their website against other plants names.  
A picture too of Iris zenaidae, which came from Janis a few years ago and a picture of Iris wilmottiana, which also came as a bulb from Janis.

[PeterT]

Janis, I forgot to say how very beautifull your Iris kuschakewiczii forms are. I have sown it many times but no germination ever  

Janis will have better pictures if he posts them, but this is Iris albomarginata (?syn caerulea) as I grow it, quite distinct from "Janises I zenaidae" with which it is equated on Alan McMurtries web site unless he has recently modified it. I'm expecting Alans "Iris albomarginata true species" to provide a  crop of hand pollinated Iris zenaidae....

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wonderful series of Junos Peter ! Thanks for showing !

[Lesley Cox]

Wonderful plants and pictures Peter. I'm very impressed with the ease with which you seem to grow them. What is the little greenish yellow species, to the left of I. zenadiae in the second group?

[PeterT]

Hello Lesley, It is what I bought as Iris caucasica ssp turcica a few years ago, It is the plant Alex showed in reply 208.
The caucasicas,capnoides and orchioides types seep relatively easy going plants. It is always a struggle to maintain things like narbuti, fosteriana, marandica, aitchesonii,-I lost my bulb of leptorhiza this winter, the growth was too far advanced and the bulb too wet for it to suspend growth for the duration of the long  frozen spell last winter.
David I'm so glad the junos did well for you.
Janis I remember your svetlanaes from last year -they are lovely. No flowers on it here this year, again the biggest bulb went in the winter.
pictures of Iris linifolia, still in flower, from Alex,
Iris caucasica turcica,
Iris seedling (?hybred) -any suggestions as to what it might be any one?

[PeterT]

some pictures of magnifica and vicaria forms.
Pat you were trying to work out which you had. I have often puzzled over the flowers on young plants too but look at the wings on the hafts of magnifica, and see Davids rather better close up of magnifica in reply 216.
I should welcome commenns on the mottled flower of vicaria, could this be a wild form or a hybred between two forms? it seems healthy but it is not my favorite

[PeterT]

Iris warleyensis, all the seedlings are potted seperately but too many pots I shall put the siblings of warleyensis together next year, it always looks spindley for me as single bulbs.
Iris tubergeniana, the pot behind it is also tubergeniana which got too dry while I was away.
Iris aucheri, it sufferd from some frost damage this winter.
I find that Irises warleyensis, tubergeniana, aucheri (and cycloglossa) require extra water while in growth.
I have not tried warleyensis outside yet, but aucheri, tubergeniana and cycloglossa cope well with heavy summer rain (in good drainage).   

[Janis Ruksans]

Janis, your persica collection is abolutly wonderfull. Iris Dinzard is a hybred of I maracandica. the details are on a lable under the plant...
attatched some junos from the past 3 weeks
Iris hypoliti
Iris orchioides Kyrgikistan Gold
Iris orchioides Rezaksai
Iris parvula

Excellent! Unfortunately I lost all my stock of hyppolityi
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Janis, I forgot to say how very beautifull your Iris kuschakewiczii forms are. I have sown it many times but no germination ever  

Janis will have better pictures if he posts them, but this is Iris albomarginata (?syn caerulea) as I grow it, quite distinct from "Janises I zenaidae" with which it is equated on Alan McMurtries web site unless he has recently modified it. I'm expecting Alans "Iris albomarginata true species" to provide a  crop of hand pollinated Iris zenaidae....

May be hybrid? Or true? How correct are colors? Pity, but albomarginata hybridises quite freely. Not easy to keep cleen species 
Janis