Tall bearded

ROUGE DE PLAISIR

€11.00

Derived from 'Tabac Blond' and 'Golden Panther', this is a pretty amaranth red, slightly coppery, well composed and enhanced by the radiance of it’s vivid, bright red beards. Excellent shape, regular waves and very good foliage qualities. (Cayeux seedling 10 186 B).

Flowering:Early

RUFFLED GODDESS

€7.00

From his father ‘Mary Frances’, it has inherited the purity of the colour. Plain pink-lavender with serrated ruffles. Yellow beards pointed pink-lavender. Excellent garden value. (Tasco 1992)

Flowering:Mid-season

RUSTIC CEDAR

€7.00

Huge flower (20 cm) lightly ruffled. Bright golden copper tan shading to lighter cordovan tan toward centre of falls. Golden copper tan beards. A warm coloured iris.

Flowering:Mid-season to late

RUSTY MANIFICENCE

€7.50

Excellent and unusual colour : copper-brown standards, lighter at their base; deep red-brown falls with yellow-orange beards prolonged with a 1 cm long white line. (Niswonger 1995)

Flowering:Mid-season

SANTORINI

€7.50

Lily white standards and wide and pure light to medium blue falls, slightly paler on the edges. Discrete white beards. Strong, wind-resistant shafts. A robust plant with an average of 6 to 8 large flowers (16cm x 11cm).

Flowering:Mid-season to late

SAPHIR JAUNE

€7.00

A rare bicolor featuring pale lavender-blue standards with falls of yellow with a hint of ochre or golden yellow and thin but neat white ruffles. The orangey-yellow beards are very subtle, almost going un-noticed. The combination creates a really interesting contrast for this prolific specimen. You can expect an average of 8 buds per stem.

Flowering:Late

SAPPHIRE HILLS

€6.50

Though not new at all, ‘Sapphire Hills’ is still for us one of the best median and true blue. Mid-blue with discreet white-lemon beards. Well-branched and good vigour.

Flowering:Mid-season

SCANDINAVIAN

€10.00

Brassy yellow standards with green tones, brassy yellow style arms . Brassy yellow falls with a lighter white flash near beards. Bright yellow-orange beards. Excellent growth. (Johnson 2012)

Flowering:Early to mid-season

SCENE STEALER

€7.00

White standards, laced and infused mauve . Purple falls, edged white, large white zonal area. Yellow-orange beards . Ruffled and pronounced fragrance. (Nichols 1990)

SÉMILLANT

€11.00

Creamy white standards infused light pink-beige . Deep purple falls, velvety and shiny, and slightly lighter around the orange beards ending white . Unusual colour but very pleasant . Large flowers well shaped .

SENSUAL ÉLÉGANCE

€7.00

Graceful flowers with icy white standards and pale lavender violet falls, deeper on the edges. Bright golden beards. Petals amply ruffled and laced strong and vigourous growth, many buds (8 to 10) on a triple-branched stalk.

Flowering:Mid-season

SERAPHITA

€6.50

Slender and well branched stalks carrying graceful, light aniline violet flowers. Standards are lighter and more pink. Golden yellow styles and beards. A decorative and rather long flowering variety.

Flowering:Mid-season

SECRET RITES

€7.50

Very unusual! Greyish yellow standards strongly infused with purplish violet starting from their base, and golden yellow falls tinted with green. Orange-yellow beards. Small, tightly waved flowers, very good branching with up to 9 buds per stalk. Placed 3rd at the Florence International Iris Competition in 2009.

Flowering:Mid-season

SHAH JEHAN

€6.50

Standards are milky white, whilst light lemon coloured at the base. Falls are crimson red with a fine 2mm wide white border. Bright yellow beards. A graceful amoena with a good finish for the time period.

Flowering:Mid-season to late

SHARP DRESSED MAN

€8.00

A tall and most elegant son of 'Paul Black' and 'Saturn'. Bright, medium-purple standards and dark purple, almost black falls. Thick orange-red beards stand out against the black falls. 3 to 4 branches carrying on average 10-12 buds. Spectacular and robust!

Flowering:Early to mid-season