Habitat: full sun
Soil: good garden soil
Height: 10 cm
Flowering: late winter to early spring
Width: 8 cm
These are dwarf, bulbous irises, flowering in late winter and bringing most welcome early colour to the garden. The flowers are relatively large, barely twice their own height above the soil, but are followed by much taller, slender leaves.
Iris 'Harmony' is a hybrid of Iris reticulata with Iris histrioides var. major, flowering a little earlier than most reticulata irises. It has sky-blue flowers, with yellow crests on the falls.
5 bulbs £4.00
| Iris 'Cantab' suggests Cambridge blue, which is a rare colour in a flower. The colour is a soft blue, and the flowers have a distinctive orange blotch on the blade of the falls, with a few much smaller white spots. | |
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| Iris 'Edward' flowers a bit later than the other reticulatas, with bright mid-blue falls and golden crests. | |
| Iris 'Joyce' produces sky blue and yellow flowers with grey speckling. | |
| Iris 'Pauline' has dark pinky-purple and deep purple flowers with a white blotch. | |
| Iris 'Pixie' has fragrant violet flowers with dark spots and bright yellow crests. |