This is an exceptionally long-blooming iris, a hybrid between I. sibirica 'Riverdance' and I. setosa 'Tourist'. (The class is SPECX.) ...Read More/>
The breeders of this hybrid, Marty Schafer and Jan Sacks, have written:
"Combining the best qualities of siberians and setosas, this plant produces an exorbitant amount of bloom – starting with the first siberians and blooming after the last. There are 8-9 buds per stalk.
"Flowers are mid-violet with darker veining near the yellow signals. The falls are large and standards quite small (as you would expect). The substance is light and the flowers are sterile.
"This large clump is well behaved and makes a fine garden plant."
This hybrid may inherit the following from its I. setosa parent: requirement for significant cold dormancy, intolerance of alkaline soils, tolerance for wetland conditions (but does well under garden conditions where siberian irises do well).
Schafer/Sacks irises have won 8 of the last 10 Morgan-Wood Medals, the highest honor given to a Siberian iris by the American Iris Society.
This is an exceptionally long-blooming iris, a hybrid between I. sibirica 'Riverdance' and I. setosa 'Tourist'. (The class is SPECX.)
...Read More