The urge for a nap cannot be denied. It's really useless to fight it since we're not at our best in the garden when we're so tired.

Naps are a lovely thing. Gives you strength for more!

The last JI to bloom for 2015 - Returning Tide.

Lovely, but sad that JI season is over. Mine ended early due to a prolonged heat wave.

R. Giskard is still going in two other gardens but the end is very near now. Hard to think of waiting 11 months before they return but they did put on a fine performance.

Beautiful Arlene. So nice to see your season, if only in pictures.

Thanks, Leslie. Even a blue LA surprised me by blooming late (7/5) this year.

You are blessed with good iris weather it appears!

I am blessed!

Does anyone know of a definitive list of tetraploid JI? I've updated my list and have 35 (per the SOCJI 2003 Cumulative checklist), 2 probable and another 6 possible based on parentage. Possibly 43 total.

Sorry, I don't know of any master list of JI tet's. Maybe Sharon Whitney (Earthheart) or Darlyn Wilkinson (Greywood) would know.

Good suggestion Arlene. I've had another bust year trying to pollinate a tet, any tet.

I should have noted that I added some plants registered after 2003 and therefor not in the 2003 Cumulative list.

Tets just aren't easy to work with. I also have a hard time getting seed and when I do the flowers are poor, usually with petals that cup or abruptly fold downward.

Seems like going through the checklist and adding any that you know were introduced after the last publication should do it. Several years ago Dee made up a list for me from the 2006 checklist and that came to 26 so obviously more have been added since.

Thanks Connie. Are there many 3F tet's as big as Japanese Pinwheel or Japanese Harmony that don't cup?

Here's my list of tetraploid JI

1. < Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Alexisaurus')
2. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Alpine Majesty')
3. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Blueberry Rimmed')
4. < Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Carol Johnson')
5. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Centenary')
6. <<< Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Dirigo Cloud Nine')
7. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Double First')
8. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Down East Postlude')
9. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Dramatic Pattern')
10. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Fourfold Mystery')
11. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Fourfold Pink')
12. < Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Full Maroon Moon')
13. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Go Green')
14. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Japanese Harmony')
15. * Japanese iris (Iris ensata 'Japanese Pinwheel')
16. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Kina')
17. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Maine Chance')
18. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Maine Charm')
19. < Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Maine Elegance')
20. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Maine Encore')
21. ** Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Margo-no-Sakura')
22. < Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'My Elisabeth')
23. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Oriental Classic')
24. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Oriental Dancer')
25. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Oriental Express')
26. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Oriental Royalty')
27. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Pink Mystery')
28. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Popular Demand')
29. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Raspberry Rimmed')
30. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Royal Burgundy')
31. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Sandhill Crane')
32. << Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Tenmiles High')
33. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Thoroughbred')
34. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Triple Threat')
35. < Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Twilight Marble')
36. < Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Valerie's Gift')
37. * Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Whiting')

* Per SOCJI 2003 Cumulative checklist
** Per SOCJI 2003, not noted in registration
< Noted in registration
<< Noted at introducer’s website and inferred from parentage.
<<< Inferred from registration, Colchicine treated seedling.


Possibly tetraploid
38. ^ Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Emperor's Butterfly')
39. ^ Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Emperor's Dragon')
40. ? Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Graceful Dancer')
41. ? Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Hopes and Dreams')
42. ^ Japanese Iris (Iris 'Twilight Lighting')
43. ? Japanese Iris (Iris ensata 'Wonderful Delight')

^ Probable due to parentage. Not noted in registration.

I don't have any information regarding which ones cup. But I have observed it in my own seedlings and more importantly confirmed to me by Kevin Vaughn that cupping is indeed a problem.

I would be surprised if Margo-no-Sakura was tetraploid. That one sets a pod for every flower without my help. Perhaps I will take a closer look this year at the seeds within these pods. Last year I just tossed them during clean up.

Hello again people.The Japanese iris season has begun down-under with my 2014 seedlings flowering before the first named JI in commerce .Here are the first few.
14-1-8 14-2-37

14-2-17 14-2-22

14-2-25
Hope you like some of them.

Those are lovely, Paul. Thanks for posting a little Spring cheer on a rainy Autumn day.

Nice seedlings, Paul! I like #4 the best for its significant blue halo.

I just finished a round of culling, dividing and replanting my small collection of JIs. I didn't do many crosses this year but will start the few seeds I collected.

Looking forward to more photos of your JIs, Paul!

Very nice seedlings, Paul. Thanks for sharing the photos with us.