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Aphrodisiac

The warm beautiful shades of orange cool to  white at the centers of the falls. The ruffled edges give an elegant appeal. Three branches, 6 to 7 buds.

Color: Apricot               Style: Self                Year: 1986            Height: 36"                    Bloom Season: Mid                  Awards: HM‘88

Autumn Circus

This plicata style rebloomer is a garden standout. The white contrasts the dark blue violet.  Ruffled edges provide even more character to this unique addition.

Color: Blue-Violet                 Style: Plicata                            Year: 1990                             Height: 34"                             Bloom Season: Early          Awards: HM‘94               Rebloomer                     

Avalon Sunset

Bright orange self  is like a burst of sunshine in the garden.  Ruffled falls add extra drama to this wonderful variety.  Strong stalks produce three to four branches  that yield 8-10 buds.

Color: Orange             Style: Self             Year: 1994        Height: 36"                  Bloom Season: Mid-Late Fragrant                       Awards: HM ‘96                  

Batik

This is a unique broken bearded variety is dark purple.  It has streaks and sparkles of white.  The fragrance adds to this award winner’s prestige.

Color: Purple-White             Style: Broken Color                     Year: 1986                             Height: 24"                              Bloom Season: Early          Awards: HM '88, HM '90, Fragrant                                 Knowlton ‘92

Bride's Halo

This angelic white iris has bright edges like halos of gold.  The flowers are elegant and frilled with its ruffled edges.

Color: Yellow/White           Style: Plicata             Year:1973  Height: 36"                           Bloom Season: Early Mid Awards: HM ‘74, AM ‘76, Dykes Medal ‘78

Champagne Elegance

This strong rebloomer is a robust grower while maintaining its delicate elegance. The white standards and apricot falls make this a beauty to be savored.  
 
Color: Apricot          Style: Amoena         Year: 1987             
Height: 34"              Bloom Season: Early-Mid                       
Fragrant                   Rebloomer           Awards: HM'89, AM'91

Conjuration

Conjuration's clean white standards are delicately tinted with pale blue-violet. Deeper 3/4 inch bands of amethyst-violet dramatically edge its snow-white falls. Yield 8-12 flowers per stalk.

Color: Violet & White          Style: Bi-Color                            Height: 40”                           Bloom Season  Mid-Late Awards: HM '91, AM '94, Wister '98, Dykes '98

Crimson Snow

The white standards are supported by the ruffled and flaring purple falls.  The lighter edges of the falls provide added character.

Color: Purple           Style: Ameona         Year: 1987            Height: 33”               Bloom Season: Early

Edith Wolford

The standards are a light canary yellow and the falls medium blue-violet. The broad very ruffled petals display exceptional form. This vigorous grower presents 9 buds on two to three good branches.

Color:  Yellow & Lavender          Style: Amoena            Height: 35”                                     Bloom Season: Mid            Awards: HM '88, AM '90, Dykes '93

Full Impact

These small dusky blue-violet blossoms (3" x 5 1/2") carry a special punch. Note how the white beard and signal spot shine like a beacon in the darkness. Excellent bloom habit produces 8-11 buds per stalk.

Color: Blue-Violet               Style: Self                               Height: 29”                           Bloom Season: Early-Late Awards: HM ‘03

Harvest of Memories

This fine bright yellow self is best known for its dependable rebloom. Note the arched standards and flaring falls totally permeated in bright yellow. Its slight sweet fragrance will draw you closer in the garden.

Color:  Yellow                      Style: Self                              Height: 38”                           Bloom Season: Mid 

Immortality

Immortality is a medium-sized formally shaped pure white self with light lemon yellow beards. Although it produces rather short stems with close branching, Immortality is perhaps best known as THE reblooming wonder.

Color: White                         Style: Self                              Height: 29”                           Bloom Season: Mid             Awards: HM '86, AM '90

Jurassic Park

This iris gives a one-two punch in the garden. The bright yellow falls and lavender-purple falls provide two-tiers of brilliance. Its large size and broad ruffled edges make this a hard one to pass up.

Color: Yellow/Lavender         Style: Bicolor     
Year: 1995                               Height: 36"                            
Bloom Season: Early-Mid     Awards: HM '97, AM '99,                                                            Wister '02

Neighborly

Smaller multiple blossoms, upright lavender standards with falls attractively etched purple & white white at the center deepening to dark purple edges, golden yellow beard.

Color: Lavender                  Style: Self                              Height: 24”                           Bloom Season: Mid-Late

New Moon

A memorable, large, very smoothly finished lemon yellow with a self beard. Beautiful form with broad, heavily substanced petals that have a lot of ruffling to give it class. Well branched. Big and bold as a new moon.

Color: Yellow                       Style: Self                               Height: 36”                           Bloom Season: Mid           Awards: HM '69, AM '71, Dykes '73  

Pallida Variegata (yellow)

Bluish lavender flowers, spear shaped green and yellow leaves make a strong statement in the garden even when not in bloom. Prolific bloomer with long lasting blossoms.

Color: Blue-Lavender         Style:Self                              Height: 24-36”                     Bloom Season: Mid

Pallida Variegata (white)

Bluish lavender flowers, spear shaped green and white leaves make a strong statement in the garden even when not in bloom. Prolific bloomer with long lasting blossoms.

Color: Blue-Lavender         Style:Self                              Height: 24-36”                     Bloom Season: Mid

Silverado

The light lavender self and beautifully ruffled edges make this an elegant addition to the garden.  Despite its name this award winner is no second place, it is pure gold.

Color: Light Lavender         Style: Self     Year: 1987          
Height: 38"                            Bloom Season: Mid        
Awards: HM '89, Walther '89, AM '91, Wister '93, Dykes '94

Speeding Again

See how the dark blue-violet color of the large flowers is dramatically punctuated with a white zonal pattern at the center of the ruffled falls. Great vigor and a delightfully sweet fragrance add to its garden value.

Color: Blue & Violet            Style: Self                              Height: 38”                           Bloom Season: Mid           Awards: HM ‘00 

Thornbird

Note Thornbird's dark violet horns extending an inch or more from the beards. They create an appealing contrast to the flower's delicate shadings. A prolific bloomer often yields more than one stem per rhizome.

Color:  Yellow                      Style: Bicolor                              Height:  37”                          Bloom Season  Mid-Late Awards: HM '91, AM '93, Wister '96, Dykes '97