Brimstone
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What's This?
Tompkins 1971
Iris Class:
Bearded
Bearded Class:
Tall Bearded
Age:
1970-1979
Fall Color:
Red/Maroon
Standard Color:
Red/Maroon
Pattern:
Self
Beard Color:
Gold/Tan
Hybridizer:
Tompkins
Rarity:
Available - not endangered
Full Description
From Cooley’s Gardens Catalog 1976
EL 38″
Brilliant new red with very large floweres of vivid coloring. This has satiny standards and velvety finished falls. It sports very heavy ruffling. The stalks are tall, extremely well branched and often have four flowers out at once.
From Eden Road Iris Catalog 1974: “(Bermuda High x Gypsy Jewels). Brilliant red with satiny standards and satin velvet falls. Flowers are large and ruffled and are displayed on well branched stalks.”
HC 70; HM 74.
Provenance: Image 1 from garden of Laetitia Munro, Newfoundland NJ 2009, iris from Presby Iris Gardens 2007.