Iris

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HansA

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Re: Iris
« Reply #30 on: April 10, 2012, 10:38:21 PM »
Some seedgrown Iris in flower - Iris lortetii, Iris kirkwoodiae calcarea and Iris lycotis.
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Alisdair

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Re: Iris
« Reply #31 on: April 12, 2012, 04:14:05 PM »
Terrific, Hans: thanks!
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Rafa

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Re: Iris
« Reply #32 on: April 12, 2012, 08:57:26 PM »
WOW! also blooming here I. kirkwoodii

HansA

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Re: Iris
« Reply #33 on: April 22, 2012, 09:23:42 PM »
Thanks Alisdair and Rafa!

Rafa, your Iris kirkwoodii is fantastic! :o
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Rafa

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Re: Iris
« Reply #34 on: April 28, 2012, 06:22:07 PM »
Well Hans, you know, there are some geneorous people out there that sharing their plants  ;) ;) ;) ;)


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Alisdair

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Re: Iris
« Reply #36 on: June 21, 2012, 06:32:59 PM »
Terrific texture, Ori: gorgeous!
Alisdair Aird
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Miriam

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Re: Iris
« Reply #37 on: June 21, 2012, 10:10:32 PM »
Beautiful Rafa!
Congratulations  ;D
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JTh

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Re: Iris
« Reply #38 on: June 22, 2012, 04:46:18 PM »
Your irises are wonderful, Rafa, thank you for sharing.
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HansA

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Re: Iris
« Reply #39 on: June 24, 2012, 09:43:07 PM »
Fascinating pics of a fascinating flower! :o
Congratulations!
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Daisy

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Re: Iris
« Reply #40 on: June 25, 2012, 02:26:31 PM »
Thank-you for posting these Rafa. Your irises are yummy. :)
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Rafa

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Re: Iris
« Reply #41 on: August 09, 2012, 10:41:23 AM »
here is a summer bloomer, Iris serotina. I think this species is an Spanish endemic, and the northafrican plants would correspond to Iris rutherfordii which is a very close species.

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Alisdair

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Re: Iris serotina
« Reply #42 on: August 09, 2012, 02:28:44 PM »
What an elegant plant, that's lovely, Rafa.
Alisdair Aird
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Joanna Savage

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Re: Iris
« Reply #43 on: January 30, 2013, 04:55:11 PM »
Iris unguicularis.  This plant, photographed in Toscana today, has more than 20 open flowers. Last year it had few, but as the vegetative growth seemed to be threatening to crack the stone walls, last autumn I pruned it very vigorously. It's good to see that this iris responds so well to  cutting back because I use it in all sorts of inhospitable places and invariably it needs discipline.

Trevor Australis

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Re: Iris
« Reply #44 on: January 30, 2013, 11:46:37 PM »
So lucky all of you to see these wonderful iris in habitat, and to grow some of them. It is too wet here but I have a friend, Pat Toolan, who lives in the rain shadow E of here and she grows hundreds of them - Cyclus, Oncocyclus, Regeliocyclus etc. Pat has grown all her iris plants from seed, a very long, tedious and demanding process. As she has described it to me she soaks the seeds, after scarifying the external skin, and then peels the skin off to expose the tiny 'nib' that will grow into a seedling. At this point she excises the nib and grows it in a sterile Agar mix under laboratory conditions. Eventually the tiny plantlets are potted on and after some years intensive cultivation are planted on a bare hillside in deep beds of dazzling white marble chips. By this means the roots can reach down into the soil while the rhizomes are in the perfectly drained chips. Even so Pat takes up some rhizomes every year to store them 100% dry until winter. Needless to say Pat in known internationally for her efforts to grow them, particularly the species. Her garden is near Keyneton in the Alte Barossa. tn
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