Iris and some Irids 2009

[Lesley Cox]

The second picture is particularly interesting because it introduces both a new colour and a new shape into chrysographes seedlings. I hope you keep on working with this one and raising further batches of seed, especially from this, if it sets seed.

[David Nicholson]

This one may not excite you but it sure does really excite me as it's my very first Iris grown from seed to flower for me. Lesley was kind enough to send me seed from which I sowed a batch of ten in May 2007 and I currently have eight plants and this is the first of them to flower. I sowed a second batch of ten in May 2008 and although 8 germinated I lost five over the last winter but the remaining three are doing very well indeed.

Iris decora.

[Paul T]

Very nice, David.  2 years isn't bad for an iris species to flowering.

[Lesley Cox]

Well I'm pleased to see that one hasn't turned up in the "Wrong Seed" thread David.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Very "decorative" David !! 
Well done !

[Paul T]

Luc,

Yes, I'm sure it does rather add to the garden decore (not sure how to put the little accent in that I think should be above the e), doesn't it? 

 

[Rafa]

oh yes! very nice indeed
Here is Iris variegata var reginiae

[David Nicholson]

Oooooooh, that is nice Rafa.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

wow Rafa - what a marvelous flower !! 

[David Nicholson]

The pics to follow are not very much to shout about now but I hope that next year my couple of new Iris beds will look very colourful indeed.

I suspect I'm not the only one amongst us who sows all kinds of seeds with utter abandon without considering where on earth I'm going to plant them out when they've germinated and grown on a bit? I had a fairly large number of seedlings of various Iris species and for some time I've been wondering what to do with them. So, today I lifted a number of fairly ancient Primula denticulatas which had really exceeded their sell by date, dug some good compost and grit into the soil and made a couple of new Iris beds.

For the record (really for my record as I'm sure to forget!) here is what I planted:-

2 x I. chrysographes "Inshriach Form" sown January 2008 from SRGC Seed Ex.
2 x I. thompsonii sown January 2008 again from SRGC Seed Ex.
12 x I setosa ssp. canadensis sown January 2008 from SRGC Seed Ex.
6 x I. spuria ssp. musulmanica sown February 2007 from Jurasek seed.
1 x I species not known-lost label. Seed ex Pilous probably sent to me by Rafa in 2006/7
6 x I. sintenisii sown 2007 from SRGC Seed Ex.
6x I. sibirica from seed collected from my own plants and sown January 2008
1 x I species unknown-lost label. Seed ex. Jurasek probably sent to me by Rafa in 2006/7
6 x I. spuria ssp. maritima sown february 2008 from SRGC Seed Ex.
3 x I. lutescens sown April 2007 fro seed purchased at an AGS Show.
2 x I. tectorum sown february 2008 from SRGC Seed Ex.   

Happy day!

[Rafa]

Well done David, I hope to see them in bloom next year maybe?
So you are a Happydayer?   only joking, this was how people used to greet one another in a tv series I used to watch when I was 5 years old!!, which was called "Children of the Stones" with Gareth Thomas as main character. I am still a BIG fan!!  

[arillady]

Rafa what a lovely iris - have not seen Iris variegata var reginiae before.
Hope your plantings David come to fruition as you must imagine them

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I look forward to see what it looks like next year David !!! 

[David Nicholson]

Had to replant the whole of one of my new Iris beds today thanks to bloody cats and had a row with a cat owning neighbour who threatened ro report me to the RSPCA. Mind you, I did threaten to borrow a rifle. 

[Eric Locke]

Oh David, Poor pussies.


Eric