Bearded Iris collection
iris collection
Transform sunny borders with this elegant bearded iris collection, where warm apricot and glowing orange tones are beautifully contrasted by rich, near-black blooms. The carefully balanced colour palette creates depth and drama, while softly ruffled flowers rise above architectural, sword-like foliage to bring structure and movement throughout the season.
Perfect for cottage garden planting, mixed borders and feature planting, these hardy irises complement one another to produce a long-lasting display with exceptional visual impact. Planted in groups or repeated through a border, they create bold focal points and make excellent additions to a cut flower garden, returning year after year with modest maintenance once established.
Perfect for cottage garden planting, mixed borders and feature planting, these hardy irises complement one another to produce a long-lasting display with exceptional visual impact. Planted in groups or repeated through a border, they create bold focal points and make excellent additions to a cut flower garden, returning year after year with modest maintenance once established.
How to care for Bearded Iris collection:
Plant the rhizomes as soon as possible after they arrive in a sunny position with well-drained soil. Set each rhizome shallowly so the top is exposed and sits just above the soil surface, with the roots spread out beneath.
Avoid high-nitrogen fertilisers, which encourage leafy growth at the expense of flowers; instead, apply a balanced or low-nitrogen fertiliser when planting if required. Water well after planting, then only during prolonged dry spells while the plants establish.
Remove spent flower stems back to the base once flowering has finished to direct the plant's energy into developing strong new rhizomes. Lift, divide replant overcrowded clumps every 3-5 years, ideally in late summer, to maintain vigorous growth and reliable flowering.
Avoid covering the rhizomes with mulch, as they benefit from warmth and sunlight and may rot if kept too wet.
Avoid high-nitrogen fertilisers, which encourage leafy growth at the expense of flowers; instead, apply a balanced or low-nitrogen fertiliser when planting if required. Water well after planting, then only during prolonged dry spells while the plants establish.
Remove spent flower stems back to the base once flowering has finished to direct the plant's energy into developing strong new rhizomes. Lift, divide replant overcrowded clumps every 3-5 years, ideally in late summer, to maintain vigorous growth and reliable flowering.
Avoid covering the rhizomes with mulch, as they benefit from warmth and sunlight and may rot if kept too wet.
What's included:
In each collection you will receive the following rhizomes:
1 × Iris 'Champagne Elegance': Near white standards, ruffled soft apricot falls and a delicate amber beard rising over blue-green coloured, sword-shaped leaves. Classified as a reblooming iris, you’ll get successional flowers and a sweet orange blossom fragrance too with this award winning rhizomatous perennial! Grows to 90cm.
1 × Iris 'Maid of Orange': Glorious, glamorous and gorgeous orange blooms with peachy-apricot tones, 'Maid of Orange' has slightly ruffled petals and fans of sword-shaped, grey-green leaves. This sumptuously coloured bearded iris looks amazing planted en-masse in a sunny, well-drained border or as part of a cottage garden scheme. Grows to 50cm.
1 × Iris 'Black Dragon': In the spring sword-like foliage grows giving structure to your planting, then these amazing flowers appear in the deepest darkest purple that you can imagine, almost black. Combine these plants with lime green, white or paler purples for a stunning effect. Grows to 90cm.
Flowering period:
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
Position:
Full sun
Rate of growth:
Average
Soil:
Moderately fertile, moist, well-drained soil
Hardiness:
Fully hardy
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This bulb dies back after flowering each year and enters a period of rest ahead of regrowth the following season.
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Humans/Pets: Harmful if eaten
