Pacific coast iris

[daveyp1970]

Could somebody point me in the right direction of somebody they know sells plants or seed of PCI's please.Hybrids or species.

[David Nicholson]

Dave, Broadleigh Bulbs have a good range of PC hybrids

[Lesley Cox]

And any of the world's Iris societies will have a good selection of PC irises in their seedlists, usually both species and assorted hybrids.

[Leon]

Many of the Pacific Coast Iris don't seem to want to grow here in my location.  About 8 years ago I made a trip to the Pacific Northwest and I came back with a very small plant of Iris douglasiana.  It lived for 3 years, bloomed and then promptly died.  Pity.  It was very nice when it bloomed.

[Diane Whitehead]

Join the Society for Pacific Coast Native Iris, which has a good seed exchange each year.

http://www.pacificcoastiris.org/membrapl.html

This year's seeds will be sent out in January, so there is still time to order some.

[Lesley Cox]

And if you send me your postal address Leon, I'll be able to send some seed in a while, maybe a couple of months or perhaps less, of my dwarf purple douglasiana and also the browny/reddish shades from Brian Ellis's Rose strain. Six have flowered now, all different but in the same general colour range. They're very nice. I suspect hybrids are easier than the species as the species I've tried from seed have all germinated, gown on a bit then died. They include just about all of them I think except bracteata which has never come my way. Innominata is always lovely and easy here, with its many colour forms and possibly many of those include a bit of douglasiana blood.

Diane I didn't realize there was a society for the PC irises. Do you have a contact email perhaps? You know I'd like to join it. Forget that. It will be in the link above you gave to Leon.

[Lesley Cox]

No sooner thought about (briefly) than done!

[Diane Whitehead]

Australians are lucky because there are gorgeous PCIs being developed there.

Here are some photos from the  SPCNI journal, showing iris bred by John Taylor who lives near Millthorpe, a village near the towns of Orange and Bathurst, about 250 km west of Sydney.

[Diane Whitehead]

Gareth Winter from Masterton NZ has a blog that shows some of his PCIs.

http://irisarchives.blogspot.ca/

[daveyp1970]

Diane i joined the society  am just waiting for my seed to arrive.Thank you for suggesting.

[Lesley Cox]

Mary Barrell in the Waikato (north North Island) is also breeding some beautiful forms. Many are named for the near-by Lake Karapiro where our world and Olympic champion rowers do their training. I have seedlings of several from the NZIS seedlist including 'Karapiro Ghost,' Karapiro Mist.' They should flower in 2013.

I've not heard of John Taylor but his hybrids are certainly startling, one might even say extreme. It's probably perverse of me to hanker after the species,