SIBERIAN IRISES A through I

Tetraploids are marked Tet.
 
 
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Active Duty Ama No Hama Aqua Whispers Baby Sister Band of Angels
Active Duty 6.00 Deep wine, slight blue halo; white signal.
Ama No Hama 6.00 No standards, 6 lavender pink falls. Slight white signal area
Aqua Whispers 6.00 Lavender pink with rose blush in throat; pale pink standards and pearl white styles with aqua midrib.
Baby Sister 5.00 Vigorous shorty (10-12") for the front of the border; blue violet with white blaze.
Band of Angels 8.00 Tet. Blue-violet with light blue edges; cream and gold signal blaze.

 

Banish Misfortune Berlin Ruffles Blackberry Jubilee Blueberry Fair Blue Pennant
Banish Misfortune 6.00 Tall. Species form. S. & styles blue-lavender; F. yellow-cream ground heavily veined violet with sanded violet petal tips
Berlin Ruffles 8.00 Tet. Medium blue self with velvety falls.
Blackberry Jubilee 10.00 Light ground dappled red violet, darker veins; pearl styles; ruffled.
Blueberry Fair 8.00 Piecrust ruffles, wide flaring form, beautiful medium dark blue set off with large white "sunburst" signals. Most impressive siberian in our garden in '99. Tet.
Blue Pennant 6.00 Tet. Blue-violet.

 

Blue Reverie Book of Secrets Bright and Beautiful Bundle of Joy Careless Sally
Blue Reverie 6.00 (McEwen 85) Tet. Lite blue-violet
Book of Secrets 20.00 (Schafer/Sacks 00) Blend of chalky white and pale lavender makes a striking flower
Bright and Beautiful 25.00 (Hollingworth 04) Ruffled bright violet with a striking yellow blaze
Bundle Of Joy 8.00 A corsage of rose violet petals surrounded by darker falls, this beautiful flower stays in a semi bud form and should be considered a novelty. Tet.
Careless Sally 10.00 Medium blue violet falls with some dappling and darker edges and neat white sunburst signals; lighter blue standards.

 

Carmen Jeanne Cheery Lynn China Bitone China Spring Contrast In Styles
Carmen Jeanne 6.00 Blue-violet with white signal
Cheery Lynn 8.00 Perhaps our best pink. A bright pink lavender with white styles, the falls have lighter rims
China Bitone 10.00 (Niswonger 02) Violet and blue bitone of a siberian typhifolia cross
China Spring 8.00 A cross between the very early typhifolia from China and a reblooming siberian gave us this very welcome early siberian which blooms well above the foliage with 1 to 2 branches. 
  Cold Frosty Morning 15.00 (Schafer/Sacks 00) Clean white self with little signal showing
Contrast In Styles 6.00 (Hollingworth 89) Beautiful wine red with lighter, contrasting styles.

 

Coronation Anthem Countess Cathleen Currier Dance and Sing Dancing Nanou
Coronation Anthem 6.00 One of the finest tetraploids, this plant is vigorous and floriferous.  Ruffled medium blue with a creamy white blaze. Tet.
Countess Cathleen 10.00 (Schafer/ Sacks 97) Light blue-violet falls with near white pearl standards & styles
Currier 20.00 (Hollingworth 04) Very early tall deep red violet with a showy white blaze
Dance and Sing 10.00 Light yellow stds; yellow styles; wide, ruffled light yellow falls, darker signal
Dancing Nanou 6.00 Blue-violet self; excellent large form. Wide blue-green foliage

 

Dandys Hornpipe Dawn Waltz Demure Illini Devil's Dream Dirigo Black Velvet
Dandys Hornpipe 10.00 (Schafer/Sacks 99) Lavender, dappled and veined red-violet; yellow undertones
Dawn Waltz 6.00 Lavender with greenish signal; violet halo and veins; pearl style arms.
Demure Illini 6.00 (Varner 85) Dark red-wine with large white blaze on pendant falls
Devil's Dream 6.00 Late blooming with a dark wine-red flower that has a purple center and lighter standards. Very nice.
  Dirigo Black Knight 15.00 (White 05) Dark falls have white wire rim, lilac standards make nice contrast
Dirigo Black Velvet 10.00 (White 99) Tet. 40". Very dark purple with gold signal. Good name!

 

Dirigo Indigo Double Standards Drops of Brandy Echo The Wind Elegance And Simplicity
Dirigo Indigo 25.00 (White 07) Deep indigo blue with nicely contrasting lighter standards
Double Standards 6.00 (Bauer/Coble 00) A multipetal with three blue violet falls accented with striking gold tinted sunburst signals supporting a nest of six flaring standards. Double Standards differs from our other line of multipetals which are extra flowers (falls and standards) emerging from the center of the flower.
Drops Of Brandy 8.00 (Schafer/Sacks 98) Medium blue falls with darker veins and a yellow signal that spreads out under the blue. Unusual.
Echo The Wind 12.00 S. Light blue; F. blue with yellow signal veined dark blue; light yellow petal edges.
Elegance And Simplicity 10.00 White with yellow center; tailored form

 

Emily Ann Ester CDM Fisherman's Morning Flutter By Butterfly Fond Kiss
Emily Ann 12.00 Tet. Falls cream, speckled and edged blue violet; standards are blue-violet, speckled white.
Ester CDM 6.00 Extend your bloom season with this very late flaring white flower.
Fisherman's Morning 6.00 Stands out in the garden because of its contrasting light blue styles on rosy red violet petals with blue violet blaze.
Flutter By Butterfly 8.00 S. light blue; Falls medium blue with white signal.
Fond Kiss 8.00 Tall stalks with large blooms. Warm white with soft lavender-pink blush in the center

 

Forever Remembered Forrest McCord Fresh Notes Frilly Vanilly Frosted Cranberry
Forever Remembered 8.00 Rose violet with a blue infusion. Nice wide falls of modern form
Forrest McCord 6.00 Dark blue, accented with a gold and white blaze and a white wire rim around the falls.
Fresh Notes 15.00 (Schafer/Sacks 04) Ruffled dark blue with paler edges and standards
Frilly Vanilly 12.00 Vigorous, smaller, full form ruffled white flowers.
Frosted Cranberry 8.00 Dark rose-pink; falls have a few dark wine veins; styles are pearl rose.

 

Frosted  Emerald Galadriel Glow Of Happiness Harmony Hill Harpswell Happiness
Frosted  Emerald 10.00 (Stahly 99) ML White; stds and styles have greenish yellow midribs, falls are greenish white with green signals
Galadriel 14.00 Pure white, full flat form; ruffled
Glow of Happiness 6.00 Creamy white with a yellow influence.
Harmony Hill 10.00 (Schafer/Sacks 04) Lovely tall ruffled full flowers of lavender and violet shades
Harpswell Happiness 6.00 A nicely ruffled white on well-branched stalks. Tet.

 

Harpswell Velvet Having Fun Helicopter Heliotrope Bouquet Hello Yellow
Harpswell Velvet 6.00 Dark velvety blue purple. Tet.
Having Fun 14.00 12-15 petals; hose in hose type, rose violet with lighter edges and blue lavender halos
Helicopter 6.00 This novelty from Japan has six dark blue-violet falls in an open flat form with no standards. 
Heliotrope Bouquet 6.00 This is a very early rose-violet with a white blaze and blue blush in the falls; the standards and styles are a lighter rose-violet.
Hello Yellow 10.00 Yellow bitone

 

 

Hooked Again I. siberica I. typhifolia Illini Glory Imperial Opal
Hooked Again 14.00 Blue falls lighter toward edges, very light blue standards and styles
I. siberica 6.00 This is a form of the species with thin foliage and graceful flowers. The falls have heavy blue-violet veining.
I. typhifolia 4.00 A very very early species from China with blue violet flowers and thin twisted foliage. The foliage tends to sprawl by summer and is not recommended for the landscape.
Illini Glory 6.00 (Varner 89) Dark wine-red with large white signal
Imperial Opal 10.00 Large 4" diameter blooms and 12-20 layered petals of lavender pink make this a cabbage rose in the Siberian iris garden. New multiple hose-in-hose form.

 

     
Indy Isabelle      
Indy 6.00 VE. Red-violet; blue blush blaze.
Isabelle 6.00 A shorter siberian with yellow buds that open into cream white standards and yellow falls.

 

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