Iris 2011

[AmyO]

All gorgeous plants! And Todd, it must be so nice to have most/some of the snow gone off your gardens! We've still got a few piles here & there, now if the weather would only warm up just a little we might actually have a spring!

[McDonough]

Wonderful Iris everyone, too many to comment on here in my "hit and run" quickie posts during the work week.  Here is Iris x 'Sindpers' which flowered well this year, it skipped blooming for the past two years!  I love the pure sky blue color, and nearly stemless growth.  It has been grown outdoors in the garden for nearly 10 years.

[LucS]

Wonderful Iris everyone, too many to comment on here in my "hit and run" quickie posts during the work week.  Here is Iris x 'Sindpers' which flowered well this year, it skipped blooming for the past two years!  I love the pure sky blue color, and nearly stemless growth.  It has been grown outdoors in the garden for nearly 10 years.

An old but always attractive hybrid.

[LucS]

An onco-iris in one of its colourforms not shown before: Iris sari

[WimB]

A very beautiful form of Iris sari, Luc.

Some Irisses in flower here now:

Iris schachtii

and some small bearded Irisses:

'Forever Blue'
'Open Sky'
and a cultivar of which I forgot the name.

[Hoy]

Wonderful Iris everyone, too many to comment on here in my "hit and run" quickie posts during the work week.  Here is Iris x 'Sindpers' which flowered well this year, it skipped blooming for the past two years!  I love the pure sky blue color, and nearly stemless growth.  It has been grown outdoors in the garden for nearly 10 years.

It seemingly liked your warm and dry spring/summer last year!

I have almost given up growing these showy Irises. Have a few other types though

[Kelaidis]

Just browsed and saw lots of great irises: I was struck by the I. schachtii in Wim's post: many of our bearded dwarfs are blooming too, and this is one I used to grow in that honey gold form and miss! I was also surprised by the albino I. flavissima (or humilis or whatever)... I admire how you all can grow junos and Oncocylus in pots: we grow them all in the ground since if we tried growing them in pots I am sure we would kill them. And our climate approximates their conditions and they seem to like it here: the following are a few of the later junos that are still blooming (we have had a fabulously cool spring so plants last forever, although with just traces of rain every week, we could use a good soak from Mother Nature)...

I believe the last one (labeled Iris sp.) is I. narbutii...any opinions?

Iris graeberiana
Iris henryi
Iris vicaria
Iris warleyensis
Iris x Warlsind
Iris orchioides
Iris bucharica
Iris willmottiana

[Todd Boland]

Spectacular Junos PK!  I cannot even get I. bucharica to survive more than 2 years 

[cohan]

Wow! So many beauties! Luc, the oncos are incredible!
Panayoti--great species! orchioides and the last sp are really amazing! I'll need to come back to this thread next time I am looking at a seedlist!

[WimB]

Some Irisses flowering here now:

Iris cristata var. alba (not very easy to find this species her in Belgium)
and Iris inominata

[McDonough]

I'm late to respond here, but respond I must, some really good stuff here!!!

@PK - The Iris bucharica in Colorado are out of control, certainly an insidious weed that needs government intervention!   Never have I seen such clumps.  Have you tried Round-Up on them   The junos certainly seem to like the Colorado climate.  Exceptional!

@Wim - one of my great desires is to successfully grow I. innominata and other Western USA coastal mountain Iris.  The brown veining in your form is most fetching.  Glad you managed to acquire Iris cristata alba, a very good white; was at Garden Vision Epimedium nursery today, and feisty pots of I. cristata alba are just a mere $6, a flat of petunias might cost more!

[McDonough]

Iris koreana was looking particularly great today, growing exponentially since moving it from another spot which was too dry.  There is a form of this species being sold by Garden Vision Epimedium that is supposed to be much better flowering, although in my case, simply moving it from one spot to another turned a virtually non-flowering Iris into a yearly flowering spectacle.  Folks, find those microclimates, move your plants around if they're not succeeding.

[RickR]

That is awesome, Mark!  And again, you are so far ahead in the season.  I don't even have Iris pumila blooming yet!  Although, I. suaveolens began a couple days ago, and an unknown twice blooming one just today.

[WimB]

Mark, your clump of I koreana is wonderful!  If I get some seed from I inominata would you like some to try?

[McDonough]

Rick:  funny that your season is so far behind yet our I. suaveolens is blooming at the same time!

Wim (and others): I will try to collect seed on I. koreana... it has to be picked at just the right point, and watched to be protected from squirrels & chipmunks (and other vermin?) that like eating the pods.  It sounds like a seed swap is in order .  The trick this year, now that I'm back to my long work days and long commute-from-Hades, is catching the seed at just the right moment.