By Matel 2013
This is an unregistered seedling of Decatur Gentleman. The pollen parent is not known. It is a 22 inch tall plant with a 5.5 inch flower, that is dark purple. There is a light purple halo in the eyezone above a gold throat. This is a mid-season blooming dormant, tetraploid.
$9.00
By Krentz-Matel 2000
This is an unregistered seedling. The plant is interesting as it doubles about half of the time. The flowers are 5 inches and a rosey lavender with a mauve eye and yellow throat. Sometimes the double flower is a full pom pom like it’s parent Big Kiss, sometime a loose fringe and sometimes just a tuft. It’s pretty, with a lightly ruffled edge when not a double as well. When single you really notice the cream mid rib but if you look closely you see it in other forms as well. You will think you have different plants. A dormant diploid, this plant is happy at the front of the border, with a height of 20 inches.
Parentage: Big Kiss x Lowcountry Lady
$15.00
By Salter 2005
This beauty is purple to mauve with a gold bubbled edge above a green throat. She is happy at the front of the border, at 24 inches tall with a 5 inch, fragrant flower. A dormant tetraploid, she starts blooming in August, so will fill your fall garden with beauty from 38 buds on 4 branches.
$15.00
This darling little iris is a native plant hardy in zone 3 to 9. Iris Cristata is commonly called Dwarf Crested Iris.
They are pale blue with gold crested falls and bloom in May here in Wisconsin. They are actually found more commonly further east and south but grow fine in other parts of the country.
They do fine in sun or dappled shade and are tolerant of both wet and dry soil. They will naturalize via shallow rhizomes, kind of like a strawberry. Not bothered by deer and rabbits.
The size of these iris can vary. Some hybrid varieties can be up to 8 inches tall or more. The type that we have here are quite small, about 4 inches, with one inch, blue violet flowers.
$6.00
By Marsh – Klehm – 1980
A dormant tetraploid, this purple blend is lavender with a deep purple halo, and blooms midseason. It is really a fusion of purple as multiple shades come into play. It is 24 inches tall with a 5.75 inch bloom.
$9.00
By Goos and Koenemann -1906
This historic iris was registered as a TB but is now considered IB. It is really hardy and thrives on neglect. The name comes from the siren of the Rhine who with her song enchanted sailors and lured them to their death.
The standards are a glowing yellow while the falls are a velvety violet with distinct white and yellow veining and butter yellow edges. The beard is lemon yellow.
This plant is a vigorous grower with healthy foliage tinged at the base. Also a heavy bloomer. Cheerful!!
$6.00
By Childs F. – 1982
A beauty at 30 inches tall which is a dormant diploid and an early midseason Rebloomer. He is a plant that you know is different enough, that you will not mistake him for another.
The 6.5 inch flower is a dusty violet with a bright purple, star shaped eye zone over a green throat. It is ruffled and recurved with prominent mid ribs to complete the star effect. Plus she is fragrant!
$10.00
Unregistered seedling by Matel – 2013
This is the result of one of my first attempts at hybridizing. The seedling used as the pod parents was from a gift of my second group of seedlings from a friend LG.
The 5 inch flower is rose to lavender with a darker halo and some mottling and streaking that differs from flower to flower. The petals have a very heavy yellow pie crust ruffled edge while the sepals do not. The edge is the same color as the golden throat.
The plant is a 24 inch tall dormant tetraploid.
Parentage: (Borders on Bordeaux x (Truly Angelic x Shores of Time)
$12.00
By Couturier-G. I – 1992
This is one of my favorites.The silvery lavender spiders seem to curl into the most interesting forms. The spider ratio is 4.40:1. The petals are defiantly darker than the sepals, and the edges and mid ribs are cream colored with varying degrees of ruffling and a few teeth. There is also a darker blended halo and a green throat.
A dormant diploid, It is taller for me than the 25 inches that it is supposed to be, but the sturdy scapes hold up tons of 7.5 inch flowers.
Parentage: (Lavinia Love x seedling)
$15.00
By Hanson – 1995
The dusky purple petals of ‘Bela Lugosi’ arise from a lime-green throat whose color bleeds into a greenish gold center. It seems to suit this Daylily’s namesake, the Hungarian actor best known for his role as Count Dracula.
Thanks to a vigorous habit, good bud count on well-branched stalks and a dark flower color that lasts well in sun, this tetraploid, mid-season bloomer has garnered awards from the American Hemerocallis Society. The slightly ruffled flowers measure about 6 inches across.
Semi-evergreen foliage never has any problems in my WI garden.
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