WELL SUITED

€4.00

Mid-purple standards and velvety black-purple falls with a lighter brim. A very deep colour.

Flowering:Mid-season

NAPLES

€7.50

Warm, sandy buff standards washed with purple at their base. The wide and ruffled falls are black cherry, paler on their edges and show a velvety texture. Dark orange beards. Growth is healthy and vigorous. (6 to 8 buds per stalk).

Flowering:Early to 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.

MACARON

€7.00

Excellent descendant of "Toile de Jouy"! Bright yellow standards, the falls a paler yellow with a small light brown border. Orange beards extended by a small, feathery, soft yellow spur. Round, well-bodied flowers, good branching, a great many buds (12 on average), ensuring a long flowering period.

QUEEN'S CIRCLE

€7.00

Though it is not one of the most original iris, it is certainly one of the most refined. It has white standards and almost horizontal falls, white with a neat and thin deep blue edge. Orange beards, ending clear yellow. Gracefully ruffled.

Flowering:Mid-season to late

CALGARY

€8.00

Off-pink white standards toned in light lavender at the base ; falls of a soft bluish lavender with white beards tipped with tangerine. Beautiful branching with 8-10 buds/stalk. A most delicate tone combination!

MELTED BUTTER

€7.00

White standards infused with soft yellow at their base. White falls overlaid at the top with a soft butter yellow pattern. Orange yellow beards. 6 to 8 broad ruffled flowers on well-branched stalks. Very vigorous, forming quickly large and decorative clumps.

DUDE RANCH

€7.50

Bright colours for this winner of the Florence iris competition in 2002. Golden-yellow standards with light plum at their base, caramel falls infused with pale violet below the old gold beards. Moderate sized flowers, well shaped and 9 to 10 buds per stalk. Subtle perfume.

Flowering:Mid-season

LUMARCO

€7.00

Something delicate: as much for the modest size of its flowers as for its pastel colouring. Soft pink standards and white falls with a fine light violet border, plicata-style. Long thick, very visible coral beards. Numerous flowers (average of 10), branching out in candelabra-style.

BOMBAY SAPPHIRE

€5.00

Standards are a light cerulean blue. Turquoise blue falls, paler toward the edges. Lavender-white beards. Really pretty.

Flowering:Early to mid-season

ANTICS

€4.00

Violet-blue with central violet stripe dark under the cadmium yellow beard. Charming!

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.

CLOWNERIE

€7.50

Pale lavender-pink standards, cream falls with a fine, precisely marked, purple border (5 mm). Wide orange-red beards marked to the tips with streaks of purple dots. Medium-sized, compact flowers with lively ondulations. 8 buds.

Flowering:Mid-season

COUNTRY CHARM

€7.00

Sulphur yellow standards and maroon-purple falls with a narrow yellow border. Brassy yellow beards. It produces many compact flowers of moderate size (7 to 10 per stalk) and often 2 to 3 stems per fan. Extremely vigorous growth.

Flowering:Late

GYPSY LORD

€7.00

Almost red, white and blue... Bluish white standards, broad and round deep blue-violet falls marbled with white, and a final touch: red beards on a white central spot. Tall stems with perfectly shaped flowers. The same quest of a « patriotic » iris on the other side of the Atlantic!

Flowering:Mid-season to late