warm tints (3)

ORANGE EMBERS

€7.50

Tan-coloured orange, lighter below the big red-orange beards. Ruffled flowers that will bring warmth and beauty to your borders.

Flowering:Mid-season

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.

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

POILLY S'EVEILLE

€7.00

Soft rosy apricot, slightly paler on the almost horizontal falls. Superb shape, pretty edged with ruffles (though not excessively). An extra attraction: a pale rosy apricot spur extends the tangerine beards. Late flowering.

POIVRE ROUGE

€7.00

Belle Moisson's sibling with standards of pale yellow that deepens near the edges. The falls are yellow with red-brown striations near the golden beards and also peppered with red speckles towards the bottom. Attractive, beautifully branched with a long flowering period.

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.

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).

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.

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)

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

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

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