Dutch Irises make a wonderful addition to the spring garden with their highly unusual flowers. Plant them in pots or borders in a sunny spot and you will reap the rewards year after year! Ideal for indoor cut-flower displays, their unusual and striking blooms come in contrasting shades of purple, white, orange, and yellow. Be sure to plant plenty so you have enough for your own vase and for giving some to friends and family! With their straplike, grey-green leaves and sturdy stems, Dutch irises are attractive when planted in groups in beds and borders. They will also make a superb addition to pots. Very hardy and easy to grow, they are the perfect plant for those with little gardening experience or anyone who wants great results with little effort. Supplied as a pack of 50 bulbs in mixed colours, size 6/7 ready for planting out in autumn. Growing to a height of 60cm and width of 10cm.
Dutch Irises make a wonderful addition to the spring garden with their highly unusual flowers. Plant them in pots or borders in a sunny spot and you will reap the rewards year after year! Ideal for indoor cut-flower displays, their unusual and striking blooms come in contrasting shades of purple, white, orange and yellow. Be sure to plant plenty so you have enough for your own vase and for giving some to friends and family! With their straplike, grey-green leaves and sturdy stems, Dutch irises are attractive when planted in groups in beds and borders, and make a superb addition to pots. Very hardy and easy to grow, they are the perfect plant for those with little gardening experience or anyone who wants great results with little effort. Supplied as a pack of 100 bulbs in mixed colours, size 6/8 ready for planting out in autumn.
Dependable and easy to grow, the unusual colouring and stripes on this bulbous garden Iris will light up your garden! Iris 'Mystic Beauty' has large, 12cm (4-5in) blue flowers highlighted with a combination of bronze and butter-yellow stripes. The standard and fall petals are crisp and clean, making this iris the perfect specimen for the garden. With its strap-like, grey-green leaves and sturdy stems, it's impressive when planted in groups in beds and borders and is a superb addition to pots - it also makes a great cut flower giving you loads of blooms for your home. Supplied as a pack of 25 bulbs, plants will bloom in June and grows to approx. 45cm (18in).
This strange and fascinating member of the Iris family looks as though it would be at home in an aquarium! Growing from a small corm, flesh sword like leaves appear in early summer followed by the intricately beautiful fragrant flowers borne on 40cm stems. As a half hardy plant Ferraria is best grown in a pot - it like good drainage so mix 30% coarse sand with your compost. Flowers appear in spring and early summer after which the pot can be left to dry as bulbs become dormant. At the end of summer lift and replant - you'll find the bulbs multiply from year to year so you'll soon have a plentiful crop of this rare beauty!
The embodiment of the fleur-de-lis, the iris is a powerful symbol of faith, hope and power, and this scintillating 'Peacock Mix' contains some of the most attractive colours available at the moment. With a sultry mix of classic tones, the stunning, ruffled, blousy blooms appear over evergreen clumps of narrow, architectural leaves which provide year-round structure. A rhizomatous perennial, each bloom consists of 2 parts, the outer petals (falls) and the inner petals (standards) and each flower stem carries 3-5 buds. Currently a plant that's very much in vogue with garden designers, Iris sibirica (commonly called the flag iris) is a reliable, hardy perennial that will fill your garden with colour every year. Useful for providing height to borders without taking over, Sibirica iris are excellent for naturalising and great for cutting so that you can bring their fabulous colour indoors. Supplied as a random mix of 5 bare root plants*, ready for immediate planting. *NB colours cannot be guaranteed
Iris reticulata Blue is a dwarf, early flowering iris that is a native of mountainous parts of Russia, Turkey and Iran. Narrow, erect foliage gives rise to richly coloured flower stems with vibrant cobalt blue blooms that have a bright golden yellow and white markings along the centre of each petal, giving them an orchid-like look. Appearing in March and April, the flowers are loved by bees and a host of other pollinators that appreciate the early source of nectar, and each one carries a wonderful fragrance. Iris reticulata make a wonderful display when planted together in pots and they also work well in rock and gravel gardens or try them as a gorgeous centrepiece for your patio table. Preferring well drained soil and a sunny location, they will happily naturalise and spread, returning bigger and better every year. The bulbs can be lifted and divided in autumn. Supplied as 25 bulbs, size 5/7 ready for planting in autumn, growing to a height of 15 cm (6 in) and spread of 10 cm (4 in).
A magnificent Dutch Iris, 'Lion King' actually describes the stunning colour of its flowers rather well. The large and extravagant two-tone blooms have falls, which are the lower petals, in golden yellow with burgundy stripes and standards, or upper petals, in copper with a flush of pink. Unlike other varieties of Iris that grow from rhizomes, Dutch Iris grow from bulbs and are superb in pots or borders where they will naturalise to increase your stock of these beautiful plants. The long, strappy grey-green leaves and incredibly strong flower stems look fantastic planted in groups, and they are excellent cut flowers too. Supplied as a pack of 25 bulbs, growing to a height of 50 cm (20 in) and width of 20 cm (8 in).