Reticulate irises 2015

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Almost stepped on this. There are others about to open but I never know what's going to happen tomorrow.

Iris reticulata KPPZ 90-160.

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Lori S. (not verified)

Wonderful! What is the

Tue, 02/17/2015 - 3:51pm

Wonderful! What is the significance of the letters and numbers behind the name... a particular seed-collecting expedition?

It will be some time here yet for the garden center varieties I have - looks like early to mid-May, from my photo records.

Robert Nold

Yes, a seed-collecting

Tue, 02/17/2015 - 6:14pm

Yes, a seed-collecting expedition; can't remember who the letters stand for. Oh. Kammerlander, Pasche, Persson, and Zetterlund. From Göteborg.

There are a couple of others here, but now under about 10cm of snow.

Here's KPPZ 90-152, but taken last year.

Fermi de Sousa

And six months later we have

Sun, 08/09/2015 - 5:12am

And six months later we have "retics" flowering here!

'George'

'Violet Beauty', but the color is not captured correctly by my photography!

This old hybrid 'JS Dijt' has also been enjoyed by the local slugs!

cheers

fermi

Lori S. (not verified)

Lovely! Isn't spring

Sun, 08/09/2015 - 7:58am

Lovely! Isn't spring wonderful?

Fermi de Sousa

Lori S. wrote:

Fri, 08/14/2015 - 3:50am

[quote=Lori S.]

Lovely! Isn't spring wonderful?

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Officially not for another 2 weeks here, Lori

Except that this one is called 'Springtime'

Very similar is 'Clairette' - the only difference I can see is less of a yellow "tongue",

'Harmony' is one of the both popular here in Australia,

and recently we've been able to get its sport 'Alida' - the second pic taken a day after the first!

cheers

fermi

Claire Cockcroft

Lovely to see the irises,

Fri, 08/14/2015 - 9:48am

Lovely to see the irises, Fermi. In the last couple of years, the slugs have shredded blooms on my plants despite baiting. So it's especially nice to see yours.

...Claire

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yes, slugs are the bane of the spring garden! They totally destroyed 'Blue Ice', the only Alan McMurtrie (http://reticulatas.com/) hybrid that was looking like flowering this year! Sometimes it looks like we have blue colored gravel with the amount we have to use, though we try not to use poisons around the food crops - fortunately we don't intend eating our iris!