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Carol23  Send Carol23 a private message!


Posted on Thursday, December 21, 2006 - 05:09 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Seen today in Charles Cresson's garden, Swarthmore, PA
this is the Greek form of Algerian Iris.



compare to the form which began flowering some weeks ago, not from Greece.

Carol23 - Southeastern PA, Zone "6B"
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Posted on Thursday, December 21, 2006 - 05:16 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Today??? Beautiful!

SusanQ - Zone 4b-5b Wisconsin
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Posted on Thursday, December 21, 2006 - 06:17 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Is this the normal time for them to bloom Carol or is this another trick of the warm weather we have had this fall? They are both beauties.

You have been to so many gardens lately, what a treat to visit gardens at this time of year with plants actively growing and flowering.

Terryk - NY, Zone "6"
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Posted on Thursday, December 21, 2006 - 06:22 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Wow.. this one is so beautiful.
Joe

Plantloverjoe - Taipei,Taiwan, Zone "10"
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Posted on Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 08:08 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

This one flowers in winter, usually January , I think. However, Charles has rigged something to place over it in bitter cold. He found a discarded hydrator drawer of a refrigerator. The size, clear plastic works well. There has never been seed produced so he has pollinated it.

Carol23 - Southeastern PA, Zone "6B"
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Posted on Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 08:36 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Well even in January it must be a wonderful site. What we gardeners do to have our flowers-someone coming into his garden to see a hydrator drawer over the plants must think he has gone crazy. We gardeners know better!

Terryk - NY, Zone "6"
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Posted on Monday, May 28, 2007 - 02:11 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I have 2 varieties of these and they flower in the middle of winter and grow in very poor soil. Pretty good!

Galanthophile - Ann (Northern England), Zone "8"
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Posted on Friday, June 01, 2007 - 02:29 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

A beatiful form. Ihave had the variety from Crete since 1988 and it has never flowered. Those from greece and Turkey are much more reliable. The flower buds are however gourmet food for slugs in the late winter. Most seen in cultivation are that blue but there are many colour forms in the wild

Tony_willis - Lancashire, Zone "7"
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Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 03:54 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I have a number of selections of Iris unguicularis from the Peloponnese and Crete most of which start to flower in November but this one from near Sparta had its first flower today pushing up through Cyclamen hederifolium leaves.
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Hellenophile - Surrey, Zone "?"
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Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 07:01 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Melvyn its lovely! I am not that fond of unguicularis because the blue seems very washed out but not this one. The leaves of the cyclamen set it off a treat.

Growit - Hampshire, Zone "8/9"
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Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 07:49 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Mine blooms every year whenever we have a brief warm spell in January or February. I also grow I. lazica, which is supposed to bloom now as well, but never shows up until late March in these parts. My patch of unguicularis is being overtaken by a rosemary bush which needs to be brought under control - time to grill some shrimp on rosemary skewers!

Jjoyner62 - Virginia, Zone "7b"
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Posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 - 08:07 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Am not so iris savvy but am excited to come upon this topic to see these iris that bloom at this time of year.
Jjoyner62 wrote on Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 07:49 pm:

time to grill some shrimp on rosemary skewers!


What a brilliant idea!

Unikyu - New York, Zone "7"

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