Habitat: full sun
Soil: well drained; keep just moist when dormant
Height: 15 cm
Flowering: 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 'Pauline' has dark pinky-purple and deep purple flowers with a white blotch.
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 '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. | |
| Iris 'Joyce' produces sky blue and yellow flowers with grey speckling. | |
| Iris 'Pixie' has fragrant violet flowers with dark spots and bright yellow crests. |