Cayeux, 2003 - Height 39" - mid to late season - SA - Light yellow standards - Red purple falls with pale yellow centers - Orange beards with orangish yellow horns - From France
Schreiner, 1994 - Height 36" - mid season - Arched and ruffled standards are solid yellow-apricot - Cream white falls are edged with 1/4" band of same yellow-apricot - Tangerine beards - Strong stems bear 9 buds, many triple-socketed
Honorable Mention, 1996 - Award of Merit, 1998
Schreiner, 1991 - Height 37" - early to mid season - Rose plicata - Standards are pink - Falls pure white, edged and peppered with deep rose-violet plicata markings - 8 to 9 buds on 3 branches
Honorable Mention, 1993 - Award of Merit, 1997
Ben Hager, 1998 - Height 35" - mid season - Standards peach pink, purple blended up midrib - Style arms peach - Falls buff, lavender, and blue blend - Beards tangerine
Honorable Mention, 2000 - Award of Merit, 2002
This Iris is a good grower and multiplier, produces an abundance of beautiful flowers, but produces SMALL rhizomes!
M Dunn, 1991 - Height 37" - mid season - Medium blue self - White zonal pattern surrounds pale lemon yellow beards - 7 to 10 buds
Honorable Mention, 1993 - Award of Merit, 1995
Black, 2010 - Height 41" - mid to late season - Standards bright medium gold - Style arms medium gold - Falls wide mahogany to amber, hafts becoming darker plum bands around lower 1/2, fuchsia center wedge - Beards dark old gold - Slight musky fragrance - 8 to 9 buds on 3 branches
Honorable Mention, 2014
Schreiner, 1998 - Height 40" - late season - Standards light blue - Style arms blue white - Falls icy blue white - Beards white with yellow base - Sweet fragrance
Schreiner, 2008 - Height 35" - early to mid to late season - Standards apricot pink - Falls same, large 1" magenta band around edge - Beards tangerine
Honorable Mention, 2010
Johnson, 2010 - Height 38" - early to mid season - Standards and style arms medium peach - Falls same color with wide blended rose bands - Beards orange - Sweet fragrance - 8 buds
Sutton, 2006
Height 36" - Mid to late season - Standards and style arms pansy - Falls red violet fading to 1" violet-pink rim, blue violet center line, blue white dotting around beards - Beards pansy tipped mustard - Ruffled Slight sweet fragrance
Byers, 1989 - Height 36" - mid to late season - SA - Standards white - Falls white suffusing to deep bright amethyst violet edge - Fuzzy white horns - Orange beards - Sweet fragrance
Honorable Mention, 1991 - Award of Merit, 1994 - Wister Medal, 1998 - Dykes Medal, 1998
Roderick, 1979 - Height 35" - mid to late season - Ruffled - Coppery melon self that shines with a copper-tan-orange sheen - Beards tangerine - Fragrant
Honorable Mention, 1981 - Award of Merit, 1983
Robert Van Liere, 2013 - Height 30" - mid season - Standards are yellow with 1/8" red wire rim - Style arms yellow with red wash - Falls white with yellow wash from hafts outward with 1/2" band at bottom - Beards yellow - Fragrant
Standards white, faint yellow band - Style arms white, yellow band - Falls deep purple, lighter around beard to white, lighter to edge with wire band - Beards bright orange
Johnson, 2012
Height 35" - Mid season - Standards white, light violet wash up midribs - Style arms white - Falls plush violet, wide white band, white spray on either side of beard - Beards tangerine - Slight fragrance
Honorable Mention, 2014 - Award of Merit, 2016 - John C Wister Medal, 2019 - Dykes Medal, 2021
Ghio, 2011
Height 30" - Very early to mid season -
Standards creamy lemon yellow - Falls white, wide violet band that bleeds toward center - Beards gold
Blyth, 2004 - Height 38" - mid season - Variegata - Plum-burgundy falls are edged with a 1/4" band of creamy apricot - faint rose flush at the midribs of the creamy apricot standards - lavish ruffles and lace
Honorable Mention, 2006 - Walther Cup, 2006 - Award of Merit, 2008 - Wister Medal, 2010
Sutton Michael, 2021
Height 38" Early to mid season
Standards violet, pale yellow band at edge - Style arms cream, pale yellow crests - Falls dark violet near black, white in throat and around beard, pale yellow edge - Beards yellow in throat and middle, ends white
Johnson, 2017
Height 37" - Mid to late season - Standards and style arms peach-apricot - Falls slightly lighter, medium rosy orchid band - Beards tangerine - Slight fragrance
Paul Black, 2004 - Height 36" - early to mid season - Space-Age - Standards pearl with midribs flushed violet and a narrow yellow gold ban widening at base - Style arms medium gold - Ruffled falls violet blue with gold rim and haft - Beards yellow gold, violet flounce edged tan - Slight musky fragrance
Honorable Mention, 2006
Blyth, 2017
Height 36"-38" Very early season
Standards bright golden yellow - Falls rich burgundy-black, 1/8" golden yellow edge and petal reverse, noticeable on ruffle of buff yellow, some small white haft marks beside beards - Beards gold
Height 36" - late season
standards buff to flesh pink - Style arms flesh pink - Falls rose orchid, washed darker in center around beard and near edge - Beards tangerine - Sweet fragrance
Honorable Mention, 2021
Ghio, 2011
Height 34" - Early to mid to late season - Standards champagne gold - Style arms champagne - Falls white, wide rose-orchid band - Beards yellow, bushy
Award of Merit, 2015
Ghio, 1994 - Height 42" - early to mid season - Arched standards are a rich black cherry color - Falls are orange salmon ground, dotted with a heavy overlay of black cherry banding and stitching - Beards sienna
Honorable Mention, 1996 - Award of Merit, 1998
Standards and style arms yellow - Falls pastel purple, red-brown radiating from hafts to all around edge forming wide band - Beards purple tipped red-brown - Slight sweet fragrance
Ben Hager, 2001 - Height 37" - early to mid season - Standards blue with violet cast, darker midribs - Style arms pale blue to white - Falls clean white - Beards yellow tipped blue - Heavy substance - 7 buds on 3 branches
Lauer, 1998 - Height 36" - mid to late season - Standards and style arms reddish brown - Falls purplish lavender with reddish brown rim and brown shoulders - Beards mustard tipped purple - Slight sweet fragrance
Keppel, 2013
Height 35" - Mid
Standards mauve, chrome lemon edge, brighter and darker at base - Style arms pinard yellow lightly infused lavender, lip lavender and white - Falls prunella to canterbury violet, narrowchartreuse yellow edge, white heart extending to tip of beard, hafts dandelion, - Beards cadmium yellow in middle, cream at ends
Honorable Mention, 2015 - Award of Merit, 2019
Black, 2017
Height 40" - early to mid season - Standards mid ruby, darker towards top, lighter peach ruby lower outer edge - Style arms violet-brown, mid gold edge - Falls plush black-cherry, near black veins, ivory veins over haft and near beard, 1/8" translucent red edge band - Beards big, dark marigold - Slight musky fragrance
