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Post by june on May 1, 2022 11:43:48 GMT -6
Showing off my irises. They are super hardy, require no maintenance and deer don't like the way they taste. Some of mine were already here when we moved into this house 42 years ago (the old fashioned gold/burgundy ones). Too bad they don't have a longer bloom time.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on May 1, 2022 19:03:16 GMT -6
I love those photos! An old patch of Iris plants just says, "Home" to me. Anytime I see them in the woods, or in an old pasture, I know someone who appreciated the good things in life lived there once.
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Post by chrysanthemum on May 1, 2022 19:20:25 GMT -6
Thanks for posting those photos, June. I love irises (I also love using an old fashioned plural from the Greek—irides, but that’s just a quirk of mine.) They are such elegant flowers. My mother grows them in her flowerbeds in Virginia, and she has water irises around her pond. I know exactly what heavyhitterokra means when he says that they say “home” to him. Thanks for “showing off” those pictures. I’d welcome other threads of yours to see more of the beauty you cultivate.
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Post by Tucson Grower on Jan 6, 2023 5:37:22 GMT -6
I can certainly agree with all thats been said here. I love all irises (or irides). I grew the rhizomatous kind in various locations around southern CA as I was growing up.
A friend and fellow college classmate of horticulture, liked them so much - he was determined to make his fortune with them. I hope he succeeded. He is very memorable because he treated all of his fellow classmates as if we were competing, with him, for his coveted spot in the iris breeding world.
I can't justify the expense of named varieties, right now, so I just bought some seed of mixed colors.
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Post by Tucson Grower on Jan 8, 2023 14:29:00 GMT -6
Yahoo, my pkt of 50 bearded iris seed has arrived. I'm not sure how long it takes to grow these rhizomatous irises from seed to flowering plant, but, hopefully, I'm about to find out.
Word is, they should bloom in their 2nd year -- well, at least that's better than most orchids.
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Post by Tucson Grower on Mar 15, 2023 21:12:47 GMT -6
Update; I sowed a 6-pack of these seed, back around 8 January 2023. I had just about given up hope of any sprouting, and I was just about to replant more seed in the still vacant, other side of this 12-pack (which I'd initially only planted half of), when I discovered that one tiny iris seedling had just sprouted [15 March 2023] - yaa. I'm still going to plant the other 6 cells (still vacant) with two iris seed, each.
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Post by Tucson Grower on Apr 16, 2023 5:03:46 GMT -6
I planted out that original seedling, it's now in its own 6 inch pot, growing well in full sun outside. It has grown about 2 inches high, and about 1-1/2 inches wide (a fan of about 6 leaves). I did sow more seed in the other 6 cells of this 12-pac, 2 per cell. It was curious, but nothing else germinated, until now, almost a week after I planted the first seedling into its own pot, now three other seedlings have sprouted. I'm looking forward to seeing these bloom, in a few years, or sooner.
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