warm tints (2)

GOLDEN IMMORTAL

€6.50

Barium yellow, deeper on falls except around the orange beards. Nice shape and edges with serrated ruffles. Good grower and it often reflowers in September or October.

Flowering:Early to late

An exquisite new variety: apricot-orange standards and creamy falls infused and edged with apricot. Bright tangerine beards. Much laced and flowers of perfect shape. Something very different and very new!

Flowering:Mid-season to late

LOUIS D'OR

€6.50

Dazzling golden yellow or cadmium yellow. Golden yellow beards with thin red-brown streaks around them. Very elegant flowers and long flowering season.

Flowering:Mid-season

MARRON CHAUD

€7.50

This delight spreads its light brown-red standards above nearly horizontal garnet-red falls which boast exquisite lacy crimped edges. The glowing yellow beards seem lengthened by a 3 to 4 cm-long stripe running along the middle. These wonderful flowers are rather round and their stalks well branched.

Flowering:Mid-season

MARTILE ROWLAND

€7.00

New and truly interesting yellow: lemon yellow with bright and vivid red-orange beards on a small paler area. Ruffled and laced flowers.

Flowering:Early

MIAMI BEACH

€7.00

New, beautifully shaped yellow! Golden yellow, slightly amber standards and very wide yellow falls with a small white area under the orange red beards. Compact, very well-balanced flowers, good branching, vigorous. Certainly one the best yellows with a red beard.

Flowering:Mid-season

MONSOON MOON

€7.00

A tendency toward green : olive yellow standards with hues of purple toward the heart. Falls are a paler olive yellow. Lavender beards with greenish tips. Lovely shape, ruffled, freeflowering (7-9 buds on average) and vigorous.

Flowering:Early to mid-season

PÉTILLANT BOURGOGNE

€25.00

Plicata genus ‘PROVENCAL’ of modern form. Petals burgundy red, sepals cream ground, sprinkled with a rich deep burgundy red, wide margins and median burgundy stripe. Orange barbs. Excellent stems, branching and full of buds. Sweet, flowery fragrance.

Flowering:Late

PHAETON

€7.00

Bright yellow standards and golden yellow falls sanded with white near the orange-yellow beards. It does not burn under hot sun. Good grower. (Smith 1992)

Flowering:Mid-season

PIRATE'S QUEST

€7.00

The very large, well-bodied flowers are slightly ruffled. Pure golden yellow with beards of the same colour on a small white area. 6 to 7 buds and often several stems per clump. Great garden value.

Flowering:Mid-season

POT D OR

€7.00

Pure sunshine yellow, with a discreet paler area under the bright yellow beard. Semi-horizontal falls, very wavy flowers with finely crimped edges. Particularly useful in that it flowers late.

Flowering:Late

PURE AS GOLD

€7.00

Strongly ruffled smooth deep gold, the beards are even deeper. A dazzling variety that can reflower in autumn.

Flowering:Early

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PLEINS PHARES

€7.00

With its late flowering, this variety brings brightness and light into the garden. Its semi-horizontal standards and falls of bright yellow have small ruffles and the slightly singed orange beards tail off into a small spur. The blooms are of average size on tall and well branched stems (Average of 10 buds).

Flowering:Very late

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