By Whitacre – 1990
Crazy Pierre is a gold spider with a maroon eyezone above a chartreuse throat. It is 24 inches(61 cm) tall and has a 7 inch(18 cm) bloom. A mid season bloomer and a dormant diploid, it has a spider ratio of 5:1.
Parentage: Arachne × Silent Night
$8.00
By Douglas 2011
Hey, you gotta love the name. If you love bright baby pink then this is the one for you. Bright pink self with a hot pink eye that almost looks like lips to me. She has a little green throat, a white mid rib and a nicely ruffled edge. The shape is perfectly round and the sepals are a lighter shade of pink and there is an added bonus; diamond dusting. The flowers are almost 5 inches and this dormant, diploid stands 2 feet tall. The bloom is midseason with rebloom and it blooms well (20 buds on 4 branches).
Parentage: Peggy Jeffcoat × Party Pinafore
$15.00
By Stamile – 1989
A cream to peach colored daylily with a bright cherry red eyezone and a green throat. The plant is 30 inches tall and has 4.25 inch blooms which appear midseason. A dormant, tetraploid it also has the benefit of fragrance and extended bloom. I love the contrast next to a red miniature daylily.
Parentage: Raging Tiger x Tet. Siloam Virginia Henson
$9.00
By Reed – 1996
Bat Signal is classified as unusual form/crispate, meaning that the petals are curled, twisted and pinched. It is a peachy cream with a merlot eyezone and a green throat. It is an evergreen, diploid that is 52 inches tall(132 cm) and has a 6 inch(15 cm) flower.
$9.00
By Fryer 1919
Although Mrs. Andrist is registered as a tall bearded iris she is really the size of an intermediate at just 20 inches. Many of these historic irise
s were shorter back then. She is an amoena (a color classification) that has pure white standards above purple falls, reticulated with white, including a white edge on the falls. The beard is sunny yellow. Share her often as she is a fast grower and also has the bonus of being fragrant. Originally listed in Mr. Fryer’s catalog from his business, Landsdown Farm, in Mantorville MN, in 1922.
$7.00
Siberian Iris Gulls Wing
By McGarvey/Wadecamper 1989
Although these gentleman brought this beautiful white Siberian Iris into production I have found references to it being around long before that. Perhaps hundreds of years. It is a tall 30 to 36 inches although it can be shorter in poor soil. It has large lightly ruffled pure white flaring falls on rigid stems. It blooms a little later than the other Siberian iris and its wider falls make it appear almost like Japanese iris. The foliage remains upright and green throughout the summer and turns a beautiful bronze color after frost. Looks a lot like Snow Queen but it has a little larger flower and is taller.
$8.00
By Smith 2009
Neither words nor photos can describe the beauty of this little blue violet iris. He blooms early and can be 11 inches tall but is shorter for me on sandy soil. He is very ruffled with falls that are held wide. The blue violet color intensifies around the snow white beards, where a white eyelash pattern is also seen. A light spicy fragrance is a bonus.
$7.00
By Willott – 1986
This cute little iris is fast growing and very hardy. It is about 4 inches tall and blooms early. It is slightly ruffled with bright yellow standards. The falls are reddish brown and are edged with the same yellow as the standards. The beards are orange/yellow.
Parentage: (Mystic Midnight x Banbury Ruffles) x Inca Idol
$6.00
By E. Tankesley – 1930
This historic miniature tall bearded iris is a sport of Honorabile. It was originally registered as TB but today is considered MTB. The standards are both white and yellow but are irregularly splotched and streaked, with no two being the same pattern. The falls too can differ in their color and pattern but are usually splashed with yellow, purple, and red; the coat of many colors. This type of pattern is called a “broken” pattern. The beards are lemon yellow. It stands about 20 inches tall and is a mid-season bloomer. Although it has been around since the 1930’s it was not introduced until 1989 by A. Katkamier. It is a fast grower and is very hardy. This iris was mixed up while naming in the 30’s with Kaleidoscope. That one also has a broken pattern but is a little more yellow in general. For this reason you will sometimes see it called Joseph’s coat Katkamier.
$7.00
Balloon flower is 2 ½ – 3 feet tall and hardy to zone 3; the balloon flower has blue/violet blooms up and down the stalk and they start out as round puffs that one day pop op
en to show the inside of the flower. Called Jie-Geng by the Chinese, the roots are edible and have been used in soups and for sore throats, coughs and bronchitis for years. They have a tap root that makes them hard to transplant when large, but also very drought tolerant.
$9.00
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