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No doubt the best bluish purple Plicata on a white background. Both standards and falls are neatly bordered. Beards are a light lavender.  A very strong plant yielding up to 4 stalks per rhizome, each carrying 9 buds. Perfect shape.

A new and attractive Plicata: Standards of a soft brown and falls with a cream-yellow background bordered in claret red. Beards are caramel brown. Well shaped flowers, ideal branching comparable to that of its mother, 'Clownerie. Strong substance. In short: a classy addition to this category! (Cayeux seedling 10 98 A)

The cross "Chevalier de Malte" with "Conjuration" has given us many good seedlings, "Aurélie" is one of them. It has white standards with lavender on their edges and flaring purple-violet falls with a large white centre. The thick red beard ends in a white spur. Well-branched stalks. Winner at the Florence iris competition in 2007.

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.

Very, very original seedling of ‘Ciel et Mer’ and ‘Tour de France ’! Milky white standards and deep mauve falls turning to medium metallic blue under orange-yellow beards shouldered by light green bronze. Good branching and 7 buds on average. (Cayeux seedling 11 214 A).

Bright apricot with red-orange beards. Round and solid flowers. Relatively classical shape. Good grower. RHS Award of Garden Merit 2004.