Siberians and species part 3

after seeing a ton of pseusdata photos I do not have to even think twice I know that many will be finding a home here, as going to be making some major changes in next two years.")

Love the signals on Crystal Halo! Looks like you'll have no trouble enjoying your mislabelled one!
First bloom ever on R. Giskard!

La Mouette today.

I love the way the points dip down on the end of the falls.

Prairie Twilight.

I love the pseudata's too but have never seen any for sale in Canada. Japanese iris are not very available locally either.

Open pollinated seedling of I. versicolor 'Pink Peaks'

Iris versicolor 'Light Verse'

Iris versicolor 'Epic Poem'

Iris siberica Chilled Wine

Iris siberica Navy Brass

Iris siberica Four-fold White

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Greywoods Persian Dusk, rained pretty hard today, some damage.

Greyswood Persian Dusk is gorgeous, Mittsy.

What are you doing up so late?

My big flush of JIs should be next week or the week after.

What are you doing up so late too Polly. It is almost 1 AM there. Get to bed! Lol

It was only a little after 11;00. I'm usually in bed by midnight. But I thought Mittsy was an early to bed one. And she's in my time zone, so at least I know the time. These time zones confuse me. You're mountain time, right Steph?

Oh, see some more that I like!

Dee, what kind of major changes in the next two years are you making, or is it a secret? You really have my curiousity going.

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Polly aren't these just gorgious. It was about 10:50 something when I saw that and I thought you were 2 hrs. later?? I did not look at when you had posted. I was confused. Nothing new.

Tsukiyono is a killer i love it boojum and thank you for posting.

none of my pseudata's will bloom this year but when they do I know I will be in heaven as I have seen them up front and personal.

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Thnks Steph. I so hope the JIs make it through for you. You'll just love them. I really think if we can get them throught the first winter they will be fine.

That Tsukiyono is so pretty. I just had a new one, Shiryukyo bloom, and it's a very tiny flower, but lovely. I hope that's not representative of the size.

Todd,

If you can't find the pseudatas in Canada, maybe you should start hybridizing and selling. I have had people from Canada contact me to buy irises, and I just don't want to try shipping them there at this point.

However, the pod parent for the Shimizu pseudatas is Gubijin, which I have. I would be glad to try to send you a piece in the spring. I think it could take some delay at the border and be OK. You would have to save some pollen from some JIs to use with it, as it's not going to bloom at the same time. Gubijin blooms earlier, so you would have to keep the pollen over winter. I understand it's pretty easy to do, dry it, freeze in plastic containers, they say the ones you keep camera film in works good, and you put some of the little drying things like come in vitamin bottles in it to keep it dry.

If you want to try, let me know, and in the spring I'll send you a piece of Gubijin.

Polly, I would have tried breeding pseudatas if the two species bloomed at the same time. I've never tried to save iris pollen for that long. Might give it a try. I'm trying to stick with smaller-sized wide crosses as space is tight.

I read somewhere that crosses have been made between the 40 and 28 chromosome siberians...did I dream that??? I tried making some today using tetraploid siberians...I'll soon know if it works.

Well, just let me know if you decide to. I've been told by Chrisy Hensler, and Dennis Kramb that the JI pollen keeps well in the freezer, so I'm going to try it.

I have not heard about successful crosses between the 40 and 28 chromosome sibs, but that doesn't mean anything.

They are called sibigraphes (I assume that is a name for a siberian X chrysographes)...I saw the reference in Tambergs site.

Meanwhile here are some examples of my first bloom sibtosas for 2009 (2007 crosses)

really pleased with this one

another keeper...look at the # of blooms for a first-time bloomer!

some of this years sino-siberian hybrids

nice eye on this one

nice veining pattern

and by far my favourite....combo of forrestii, clarkei, chrysographes and bulleyana

All nice, but that last one would be my favorite too.

Mine, too. Striking!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! They are so beautiful, Todd!

Here's my excitement for today. Steve Smith's JI (trying to get its official name) opened.
Very tall!

One more.

Gorgeous flowers!!! still drooling. LOL

I do think the 3 falled JI are nicer. Crisp & more visiable. Stands up to this horrid rain also--can do nothing in the garden.

Wow, those sino-siberian hybrids are beautiful. Love the veining. Combo of forrestii, clarkei, chrysographes and bulleyana also my favorite one.

Can I grow those here? Did you originally get seeds from Signa or do they grow in the wild there, Todd?

Kathy, they are all my own crosses. All should do fine in your area. I did use local forms of hookeri and versicolor in my sibcolor and sibtosa crosses. The sino-siberians species were growing at our botanical garden so I just starting crossing them to see what I would get. I have more funky ones opening today...have to go get pics to show you!

Falling Star JI. A little waterlogged.



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