Otto and his plants.

Otto and his plants,

Otto has sent me some photos of the very rare plants flowering and growing in his garden at the moment. The beautiful Shortia uniflora Grandiflora growing in Otto's garden in a very cool position where it is not allowed to dry out and is kept moist at all times, flowered this year for the first time. The flower is quite large for the size of the plant and small leaves it was displayed on our bench about 4 weeks ago.

 Another beautiful plant in the glass house is Ophrys tenthredinifera with Dionysia flowering in the back ground.

Iris acutiloba in bud in Otto's Garden.

Iris acutiloba open and in full flower.

Otto has moved his rare and difficult Oncocyclus Iris to Ferny Creek Hort Soc. to make the most of the well drained soil, hot sunny conditions and good air flow in this garden. The small one on the left of this clump is Iris Thor it is an old hybrid between an Oncocyclus and a Regelia Iris made by the Dutch firm van Tubergen.

 The larger clump of Iris in the above photo is Iris kirkwoodiae calcarea that had 8 flowering stems which I think shocked everyone. These are close up photo's taken by Jon who kindly lent them to us. I'm afraid I couldn't choose which ones to put in so I have included them all. The markings and colouring of this Iris are extraordinary. Well done Otto and thank you to Jon for his beautiful photography.

Click on photo's to see the details of these Iris flowers.