Tall Bearded blooms last spring

criris_z8

7 years ago

Here is a few new to me photos.

New SDB seedling, probably release

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User
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
I like 'Broome Sunset'. I was quite surprised how well this color combo worked in a mixed bed.

Thanks for these pictures.
Nancy
7 years ago
Lovely, and some I don't think I've seen before. I'm rather drawn to Insaniac, not a color/look I'm usually that attracted to, but I like it.
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Rosefolly ~ sorry not to have something definative for you. My first guess is 'City Lights'. Only a side-by-side comparison could verify. If it reblooms. 'Cycles' and 'Suky' are possibbilities. They both have 'Victoria Falls' in their breeding and some years VF has been a reblooming fool. Other years, not. 'Batik' is not reverting --- broken color iris often have unstable genes. Here is a link to Dave's Garden which has quite a number of photos. 'Suky' in on pg. 34 of the S's. Here is a link that might be useful: http://davesgarden.com/pf/finder/index.php?sname=Iris&submit=submit
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Poultry manure is very hot. Make sure it's well aged or it will burn. I've even seen it eat through metal sheds. Add a little lime, now or late fall. Takes time to work. Don't lime beardless iris, can kill or seriously set them back. Unless your sitting on one of the rare limestone deposits on North americas east coast a little lime won't hurt, probably will help and is real cheap. Bearded iris like calcium. Little bit of epsom salts sprinkled in now and then too. Because the east coast soils and bedrock are much older than the west coast a lot of the easily solubable nutrients have gone too deep for most plants to reach. Calcium and magnesium being the big ones. Nitrogen grows foliage, phosphorus grows blooms. Iris actually like the soil a little on the poor side. I'd mix the sand and soil up too. After bloom season would be best. Too much disturbance and they may abort blooms. Probably won't bother the plants much but inorder to gain strength from a transplant a lot of plants won't bother using strength flowering. I don't use much in the way of commercial fertilizer but I have spread an all purpose 10-10-10 after bloom with no problem. Light feeding and once or twice after bloom. Plenty to hold them until spring. You really don't want to kick them into high gear while the soil is still real wet or too late in the fall either. Honestly they are better off a little hungry.
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chas045
7 years ago
That first one is very fresh and pretty. With original help from irisgal though, I am quite certain that you have mis-named the middle picture that you called 'go lightly'. You are showing 'everything plus' which I try to keep an eye on for propagation. I had a poor year and I guess I need to add more bone meal. I hope I haven't lost them.
User
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
So many beardeds look so alike. Everything Plus has a slightly wider fall rim that I would guess is a bit deeper in color than Go Lightly's. And its beard is different in colors.

Chas, I've forgotten where you are but we have serious drought here. During our few rains, I caught extra water and dumped it on a dry corner where driveway meets street. The established iris there which had not bloomed for 3-4 ? years put forth bloom. So I'm thinking my poor bloom rate may have more to do with lack of zone9's "winter" rain than fertilizer (which I thought was the culprit). I hope both our irises do better this year!
chas045
7 years ago
@irisgal: I couldn't even find an actual 'go lightly' so I assumed that it was 'holly golightly' which appears to be a solid dusky blue. Is there really such a critter?

Re location & conditions: I am now in zone 7 Carolina in super clay which retains nutrients far better than my old Z9 northern CA aledged to be adobe, but has nothing to do with real clay like I have now. In CA our family had old iris that rocked along with little if any care. When I divided and added bone meal, I ended up with blooms all over. BTW, as you probably know, it doesn't rain from mid April thru mid Sept. At least now even though it might not rain for a month, the clay will hold some water for a couple weeks; and it will rain again; out there, who knows?
User
7 years ago
What a location change! Ugh. Clay. 3 miles south of me they have clay you could use for potting.

Here's a link with information about Go Lightly.
criris_z8
Original Author
7 years ago
Let me help set the record straight on "Go Lightly", which I obtained last year.

The picture perfectly matches Rocky Top's photo of Go Lightly and one from National Gardening

Go Lightly

http://garden.org/plants/view/655694/Tall-Bearded-Iris-Iris-Go-Lightly/

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