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

HAUT LES VOILES

€7.00

We crossed two Dykes Medal winners ("Edith Wolford" and "Honky Tonk Blues") to get this magnificent and waved bicolor. Clear butter yellow standards and cool bluish lavender falls with almost invisible beards. For us, it is one of the best blue and yellow bicolors.

Flowering:Mid-season to late

CELEBRATION SONG

€7.00

New bicolour that combines many qualities: charm, perfect shape, long flowering, 9 to 12 buds, great vigour. Pinkish apricot standards, soft rosy lavender falls much paler around the tangerine beard. Quite rightly it won first prize at the Florence iris competition in 1996.

Flowering:Early to late

CIEL ET MER

€7.00

Robust descendant of "Futuriste" and "World Premier". Very pale blue standards and strong indigo-blue falls, fairly discreet yellow beards. Enormous flowers enlivened by strong, ample ruffles. Flowers quite close to the main stem, a characteristic inherited from its parent, "World Premier".

Flowering:Mid-season

MAGNETISME

€7.00

Sumptuous new variety with sky blue standards and satiny dark violet falls of as surprising luminosity. The falls are paler towards the dark rusty orange beards, shouldered with amaranth. Numerous ruffled flowers, low-branched stems, excellent foliage and long flowering-in short: a nearly perfect iris that is one of our favourites.

Flowering:Mid-season

ANDALOU

€6.50

As warm as the south of Spain: bright and pure yellow standards and velvety red falls. Extremely clean contrast and exceptionally vigourous. RHS Award of Garden Merit 2006.

Flowering:Early to mid-season

ART DECO

€7.00

Excellent variety with dark violet standards marked with white in the centre and pure white falls with a clearly drawn dark blue-violet bordure 1cm wide. Very floriferous with 8 to 12 buds.

Flowering:Very early

HEURE BLEUE

€7.50

We crossed "Ouragan" and "Yaquina Blue" to obtain this wonderful pure blue, between sky blue and mid-blue. It has huge, strudy round flowers moderately waved. Named best blue variety at the 2005 International Iris Competition at Florence.

Flowering:Mid-season

THORNBIRD

€7.00

Ecru yellow standards and greenish yellow falls deeper on their edge. Violet beards tipped mustard with dark violet horns extending an inch or more from the beards. Variety which blooms prolifically.

Flowering:Mid-season

DYONISOS

€7.00

Pale mauve wine-coloured standards and rosé-wine falls, lighter than the standards and almost horizontal. Orange-red beards. Firm-bodied flowers slightly waved and free-flowering (8 to 9 buds per stem). Superb branching. Unusual colour between rosé and Bordeaux, very attractive!

Flowering:Mid-season to late

CHATEAU D'AUVERS SUR OISE

€7.50

A very appealing Amoena with pure white standards infused with pale apricot as the buds open, and copper-apricot falls. Bright tangerine beards. The falls are vigorous, nearly horizontal and closely ruffled at the edges. Well-balanced strong stems.

Flowering:Early to mid-season

CHAUD BOUQUET

€8.00

Salmon standards lightly tinted brown along the edges. Creamy apricot falls with a wide magenta border spreading out into fine lines towards the tangerine beards and their superb magenta spurs. Impressive branching with an abundance of flowers (10 buds on average).

Flowering:Mid-season to late

BLUE TEMPTATION

€8.00

Marvellous really pure mid-blue, bred from two equally wonderful blues: "Yaquina Blue" and "Oregon Skies". Yellow beards tipped with blue, nearly invisible in this cerulean ocean. Very big flowers (10 cm x 16 cm), gently ruffled.

Flowering:Mid-season

HONKY TONK BLUES

€7.00

Deep wisteria blue mottled or streaked with blended grey-white on the falls. Deep wisteria blue beards. Perfect shape and stems (with 10 buds). Excellent.

Flowering:Mid-season

BAIE DES ANGES

€8.00

A very attractive solid light to medium blue with bright tangerine beards. This iris is a descendant of "Princesse Caroline de Monaco" and "Eau Vive", both blue with tangerine coloured beards. Medium sized flowers with a lovely shape. We feel that the pureness of tone compensates for the relatively small number of buds (6-7 on average).

Flowering:Mid-season