Tall Bearded Iris 'Classic Bordeaux'

An acceptable grower, not the best, not the worst in the yard but a nice red color out of the maroon purple side of the spectrum. Tall st...Read Morealks display the flowers well and my neighbors, who don't know that there is no true red iris, refer to it as "that red one". They comment on it every year so this proves its eye catching quality.

An incredibly deep, very rich, red cherry/burgundy color - not at all brassy or brown. Its texture resembles a combination of heavy satin...Read More and velvet. Beautifully ruffled form with large flowers, great stalks, and loads of blooms so you can enjoy them for a long time. This iris is gorgeous - it caught my eye in a huge field of irises and pulled me over (weird, but I had the distinct feeling of wishing to just remain there in its presence - so I'll make a seat next to where mine grows). I admit to having avoided the solid (self) reds as a class as they seemed so imposing for such a self-reflective flower as the iris, but as I marked up my catalogues with notes and visited growers, somewhere in the process of finding all the "other" colors and patterns, I fell deeply for two beauties: this and 'Dynamite' - a huge, smooth-colored bright red - both irises too lovely not to own.

Tall bearded iris "Classic Bordeaux" won AIS Honorary Mention in 1999. It's a tall iris - almost 40".