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Name for tall bearded iris?

10 years ago

I would like to find a name that might match a tall bearded iris that appears to have only begun blooming recently in my garden. I don't need a perfect match, but with a name, I could describe it to others. It has light blue standards and strong purple bordered white falls with sparklie golden beared. My monitor gives a perfect match to the actual iris.

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iris_gal
10 years ago
Chas ~ your iris looks like 'Everything Plus'. An excellent cultivar.

There are several more with this pattern and I will post all their names if you don't think 'Everything Plus' is a match.
chas045
Original Author
10 years ago
iris_gal, wow, how do you do that? That is a perfect match; at least for the picture I provided, and it is probably good enough for descriptive purposes. BUT as I said in my second post, the falls color was not right from my camera and is actually the redder color shown with 'spiked'. Was one of your others closer to the falls of spiked?
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iris_gal
10 years ago
Thanks Chas! Some of the pics of Everything Plus I've saved showed more violet-purple fall color and some were more "hard" purple. Cameras!! Monitors!! Aughh. But I thought the beards were an important clue. Very distinctive.

Everything Plus was a popular iris and I saw it many times.
chas045
Original Author
10 years ago
Thank you IG; I guess you must be right. For one thing, I found the following description for Everything Plus at Heritage Irises:

'but it's problem is that it is not overly tall, and the branching begins right at ground level and works its way up through 4 branches, the lower branch is quite long, coming up almost even with the top branch, I call it the menorah candelabra effect'.

I haven't walked out to check precisely, but my iris is indeed a little short and a lower bloom was near ground and seemed unusual. (edit: and now three blooms at once, very nice and low to ground)

This post was edited by chas045 on Tue, May 6, 14 at 10:55
jmcdmd
9 years ago
That definitely looks like "Everything Plus". I have that one, and I love it. One of the things that I like about it most is that it is on the short side of 'tall bearded', and for the most part it does not require staking.

It won the Dyke's Medal one year....not sure what year, but that is the highest award that an iris can be given.

ENJOY

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