MER DU SUD

€7.00

A child of the excellent "Dusky Challenger". It is a rich navy blue (almost exempt from violet). Vigorous grower and often three flowers blooming at the same time. Medium blue beards. RHS Award of Garden Merit in 2000.

AIGUE MARINE

€8.00

Magnificent very pure sky blue, with small pale yellow beards towards the centre becoming white at their ends. Flowers close to the stem but well spaced and moderately ruffled. Very upright stalks and long-lasting flowers (9 – 10 buds on average). A good grower.

Flowering:Mid-season

TOP GUN

€6.00

Creamy pink standards. Cool rose-pink and laced falls with deep orange beards. Perfectly shaped flowers and a good grower.

AUTUMN CIRCUS

€7.00

White standards lightly peppered blue-violet. White falls with bold lines radiating from white beard, blue-violet plicata edge. It regularly reblooms at the beginning of autumn.

SNOW SEASON

€4.00

Lovely pure white with light lavender beard.

PAUSE DOUCEUR

€8.00

Pleasing subtle and soft shades, with lilac-white standards and light-lilac falls which frame red-tipped white beards. Elegantly placed branches and perfect stems. An average of 10 buds per stem.

VICTORIA FALLS

€6.00

Great clear to mid blue self with just a small white area under the white beards. Though not new, much interesting with 10 to 14 flowers per stem and the Dykes Medal in 1984.

FANCHETTE

€7.00

Bred from the marvellous "Paul Black", Dykes Medal winner in 2010, here is a charming unified rosy violet with red beards. The medium-sized flowers are perfectly balanced with the foliage and very numerous (average of 12). Well-branched stems, delicious colour.

Flowering:Early

GERARD BRIERE

€6.00

We are delighted to name this new unusual bi-colour "Gérard Brière" after the founder of the iris garden Brocéliande in Brittany. Amber-yellow standards, tinted brown at their edge, and blue-violet falls with a large white centre and bright yellow long beards. Multiplies up well, unusual colour.

INTREPIDE

€8.00

Bright and attractive combination: pure yellow standards on light purple falls tinted anilin and decorated with a narrow bronze rim. Orange-yellow beards edged with bronze. Medium-sized flowers and good count of buds.

FRIVOLITE

€6.00

Pale pink standards and pinkish white falls which are amply veined with magenta, yielding an intense pink effect. Beards are of a soft yellow. Graceful flowers.

MARCEL TURBAT

€6.00

Bright clear orange. Elegant flower lightened by tangerine beards. Dedicated to Monsieur Marcel Turbat who was an eminent member of the French Iris Society.

IT'S A PLEASURE

€6.00

A really classy descendant of "Wishful Thinking". Rosy lavender standards and falls of the same colour but lighter, except on the edges. White beards tipped with light tangerine. Robust, malady-resistant and up to 10 buds per stalk.

PLANEUR

€7.00

An amoena with white standards very slightly touched with blue and deep blue-violet, nearly horizontal falls, with much paler 4 mm edges. Large flowers, 18 cm wide and gladioli-style branching.

FUNAMBULE

€6.00

A very big bicolour with butter-yellow standards and very dark violet-purple falls, with a big cream "throat" around the yellow-orange beard. Despite the moderate number of 6 buds, the arresting contrast offered by "Funambule" makes it an excellent new variety.