Siberian Iris Schafer Sacks Seedling

Just turned up today in a email sent by Marty Schafer its a seedling that Marty has described as "is one of the most exciting seedlings that bloomed last year" Parentage S03-56A-10 X Miss Apple. Joe Pye Weed's Garden is Jan and Marty's mail order plant nursery specializing in Siberian Irises, Versicolors, and Species and Interspecies hybrids

As always clicking on the above image will take you to the larger, higher resolution version.
Of course a major hat tip to Jan and Marty for sharing the magic
Photo credit and copyright Schafer Sacks

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Schafer Sacks 2010 Introductions

POMEGRANATE PUNCH. Schafer/Sacks (Seedling No. S03-77-12), 23", EM. A richly colored iris which is a blend of yellow and red purple with orangey highlights on sunny days. The falls have a felty texture, nicely flaring with soft and rolling ruffles. The styles are ornamented with small ruffles and dark red picotee edges. Medium sized flowers are held just above the wide and erect foliage. Three buds present a nice succession of bloom. (Sunfisher x sib to On Her Toes) X (((((Star Cluster x Ruffled Velvet) x (Creme Chantilly x ((Atoll x Ruffled Velvet) x Butter and Sugar))) x Riverdance) x ((Forrest McCord x Isabelle) x Dawn Waltz)) x (sib to Dawn Waltz x Dandy's Hornpipe))
Just arrived from Jan Sacks two photos of Jan and Marty's 2010 introductions. Joe Pye Weeds Garden web site is updated for 2010 , give it a visit and admire the genius of diploid hybridizing. Revisit this post and I will update it with more information when it comes to hand. Ten years ago who could imagine the kaleidescope of colour's, its just amazing.




CINNAMON SUGAR . Schafer/Sacks (Seedling No. S03-28-3), 24", M. An impossible color to describe without using food analogies - the falls are smooth chocolate pink or sugared cinnamon. The standards and styles are the palest violet to cream, both with a warm glow of yellow at the edges. Signals are deep golden yellow softened by self colored veins. A prolific bloomer with stalks well distributed in the compact clump. Small to medium
flowers, four to six buds per stalk. Strong neat foliage. Tree of Songs X sib to Pretty Polly: (Gentle Lass x (sib to Dawn Waltz x Dandy's Hornpipe))

As always clicking on the above image will take you to the larger, higher resolution version.

Of course a major hat tip to Jan and Marty for sharing the magic.
Photo credit and copyright Schafer Sacks

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Siberian Iris 'LUCY LOCKET'

Its great to finish the Siberian Iris Feature month with what was once considered unobtainable, a Yellow Siberian and this 2009 introduction 'LUCY LOCKET,' shows the considerable advance made recently by Hybridisers in this colour tone.Congratulations to and Well done Jan and Marty.

LUCY LOCKET . Schafer/Sacks (Seedling No. S01-91-10), 26", E-M. Small, sweet, golden yellow bitone flowers with lovely flaring form. Two branches with six buds and a long season of bloom. Foliage remains beautiful late in the Fall. Very vigorous. (((sib x Pleasures of May) x sib to Sarah Tiffney) x ((Star Cluster x Ruffled Velvet) x Isabelle) x (Kenbee x Alter Ego))) X Lady's Chain.

Big Hat tip to Jan and Marty from Joe Pye Weed's Garden for photo and information

Photo Copyright Schafer/Sacks

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Siberian Iris 'SWEET LITTLE SUSIE '

Look its really great to show the latest and greatest Siberian Iris but it would be wrong not to point out to readers that, listed within the 2009 catalogues of Siberian Irises from all growers contains some fantastic varieties with reasonable price tags .(Check out Siberian Links for a grower in your area).
Sweet Little Susie is one of many great selections available in the six to eight dollar price range, an amazing shorter growing iris for the front of the border. So if you are new to growing Siberians or have never tried these Irises you can buy a great perennial priced for way less than a flat of Annuals.

Joe Pye Weeds Garden have an great range which includes a few special priced Siberian Irises which are available for Spring shipping only, and will not be available again after that. These are marked in the catalogue with *Spring only, and all are very fine Siberians. Catalogue can be downloaded.

Joe Pye Weed's Garden 2009 Catalogue
SWEET LITTLE SUSIE - '01, EM, 22". Nice short habit makes it perfect for a smaller garden. Periwinkle blue flowers - lighter in the standards and deeper in the falls. Large cheerful white signals. Medium to small flowers have soft ruffles and archingform. 

3 to 4 flowers per stalk .............................................. $6.00

2006 Cumulative Checklist of Siberian Irises
SWEET LITTLE SUSIE Schafer, Marty and Sacks, Jan Reg. 2001 Sdlg. S94-30-1 SIB (dip.) (22" 56 cm) EM. Medium hyacinth to wisteria blue (RHS 91 A, 92A) self, F. with large round white signal veined violet-blue; ruffled; slight fragrance. S90-45-2: (S86-16-1: (Percheron x Isabelle) x Sailor's Fancy) X S92-65-1: (S89-9-2: (Isabelle x Silver Illusion) x Snow Prince). Joe Pye Weed's Garden 2001.

Big Hat tip to Jan and Marty from Joe Pye Weed's Garden for photo and information

Photo Copyright Schafer/Sacks

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Siberian Iris 'SO VAN GOGH'

This is another colour advance from Jan Sacks and Marty Schafer. These smaller flowering species like Siberians are very popular when seen by Garden Visitors and after first viewing rapidly become a must have plant.

Joe Pye Weed's Garden 2005 Introductions
SO VAN GOGH - 2005, EM, 30” Schafer/Sacks
Everyone who saw the large clump of this iris in 2004 mentioned Vincent Van Gogh. The flower is stunningly different, the first bi-color 28-chromosome Siberian we have ever seen with purple standards and yellow falls.It is not a perfect flower, the form is species like and there is a small notch in the end of each fall. It make up for its small flowers size with big clump performance.The standards are a lovely blue-purple (RHS 91B to 90B)with darker veining (RHS 89B at it darkest). The falls are yellow,(RHS 18C)lighter at the edges and darker at the signal, with purple veining (RHS 89A). The styles are blue-purple with darker highlights. There are 3 terminal buds and 1 branch for a total of 5 buds. It starts flowering early and continues for a long time. Sdlg No S97-20-10 Sarah Tiffney X Banish Misfortune




Cumulative Checklist of Siberian Irises
SO VAN GOGH Marty Schafer/Jan Sacks, Reg. 2005 Sdlg. S97-20-10. SIB, 30" (76 cm), EM ; S. and style arms medium blue-violet (RHS 90B to 91B), darker veining and edges (89B at darkest); F. yellow (13C), lighter at edge, darkest at signal, veined blue violet (89A to 90B), darkest at tip, signal yellow, veined deep blue-violet, blends into F. Sarah Tiffney X Banish Misfortune. Joe Pye Weed 2005. HM 2008, AM 2010.

Big Hat tip to Jan and Marty from Joe Pye Weed's Garden for photos and information

Photo Copyright Schafer/Sacks

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Siberian Iris 'ROARING JELLY'

No feature on Siberian Irises would be complete without including 'ROARING JELLY'.
In New Zealand it was originally imported from America by Eddie Johns of Otara Birch Gardens fame (Shows he has good taste) and in gardens where it grows it still is a sensation.
This Iris consistently features in the Siberian Iris Society 'Favourite Cultivars List' year on year which is voted by the society members. Awarded the Morgan Wood Medal in 1999

Paul Black, now he knows a thing or two about Irises had this to say about Roaring Jelly in his 2005 Mid America Garden Catalogue 'Oh so yummy, the finest Siberian we grow, WOW'

From the Joe Pye Weed's Garden Catalogue 2008
ROARING JELLY - '92, M & RE, 36". Makes a magnificent clump! Falls dappled bright raspberry with pale lavender standards lightly dappled. Flowers full, round and slightly
recurved. Strong repeat. Morgan-Wood Medal '99.

2006 Cumulative Check List of Siberian Irises
ROARING JELLY Schafer, Marty and Sacks, Jan Reg. 1992 Sdlg 86-36-1 SIB (dip.) (36" 91 cm) M & re S. lavender-grey (RHS 85D) with diffused red-purple veins; style arms same, flushed blue-aqua; F. shaded and dappled throughout (overall effect is red-purple maroon), white signal with dark veining and dark blue flush. Warburton ARV82-31: ((Atoll x Ruffled Velvet) x Ruffled Velvet) X Springs Brook. Joe Pye Weed's Garden 1992 HM 1995; AM 1997; MORGAN-WOOD MEDAL 1999

Available in America from Joe Pye Weed's Garden, and also Iris City Gardens.
I am sure there are many other suppliers around the world and visitor's could try and search Google

Big Hat tip to Jan and Marty from Joe Pye Weed's Garden for photo and information

Photo Copyright Schafer/Sacks

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Siberian Iris 'RAUCHBLAU '

An Iris I have always admired from the day I first saw it RAUCHBLAU is a very classy tetraploid Siberian introduction from Tomas Tamberg
Available for Spring delivery from both Tomas Tamberg's Garden in Germany and Joe Pye Weed's Garden in America. To receive Spring delivery of Siberian Irises from Tomas Tamberg orders must be received no later than the 31st of March, 2009, Joe Pye Weeds Catalogue states that you can chose an April, August or September delivery date.

Joe Pye Weed's Garden Catalog 2009
RAUCHBLAU (Tamberg 2007)
A large flowered tetraploid Sibirica derived from a cross between a mottled seedling, called "Milky Way seedling", and a pure white Tetra-Sibirica. Falls are ruffled and show a smoky blue colour. Standards and style arms are of a lighter blue resulting in a special clump effect of this variety. The flower stems are strong, up to 90 cm high and produce a side branch. A vigorous and fertile new introduction

Siberian Iris Society Checklist
RAUCHBLAU (Tomas Tamberg 2007) Sdlg. SSTT669 SIB (tet) 35" (90cm) M S. style arms and F. light blue. F. dappled darker blue. (Blue Reverie X (Zweites Hundert X Dear Dianne)) X white tet sdlg. Tamberg 2007

Big Hat tip to Tomas for the great clump shot and information and to Jan and Marty from Joe Pye Weed's Garden

Photo Copyright T. Tamberg

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Pick Yourself Up, Dust Yourself Off, and Grow Siberian Iris

'Fond Kiss' Courtesy Joe Pye Weed Garden

Today starts the series "Siberian Iris"
Photo above "Fond Kiss' the Morgan Wood Medal winner for 2008 and my sincere congratulations to Jan Sacks and Marty Schafer of Joe Pye Weed's Garden fame. Plant can be ordered in America for April delivery from Joe Pye Weed's Garden.Order Early, I am sure it will be popular.

Description from JPW Catalog 2009.
FOND KISS - 1999, M & RE, 33". A big extravagant flower and an even more extravagant display. Warm white with a large pink flush on the falls. Three buds open in slow succession followed by repeat. AM’04

Fond Kiss was sold in New Zealand so it is growing somewhere in the Country I'm sure

The coming few weeks there will be post with information on "How to grow' and of course where to buy them from. Plus we have been sent some amazing Siberian Iris photos most from the hybridisers themselves. Siberians are sold in the US of A in the Spring and Fall and by Tomas Tamberg in Germany in Spring. In New Zealand Siberians are sold in the Autumn so with the Spring next up in the Northern Hemisphere, and with Autumn next up in the Southern part of the World we can promote the Irises and no one will have to wait to long for their plants to arrive. Visitors will also note a New Siberian Iris Link on the left side column this will make it easier for visitors to link with the growers Web Sites and the Siberian Iris Society for the period of this series of posts.

So "Pick Yourself Up, Dust Yourself Off, and Grow Siberian Iris" I guarantee they will brighten up your day and the garden no end.

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