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Knowlton 1951/1954
Iris Class:
Bearded
Bearded Class:
Tall Bearded
Age:
1950-1959
Fall Color:
Purple
Standard Color:
White
Pattern:
Amoena
Beard Color:
Orange/Deep Yellow
Hybridizer:
Knowlton
Rarity:
GG eligible - endangered
PBF:
No

Full Description

From Iris Test Gardens, Yakima Washington,  1960.

The flowers have gleaming pure white standards well domed, and delightfully fluted. The falls are semi-flaring of velvety red-purple with only a slight brownish flush at the haft, and almost no veining each side of the thick yellow beard. The blooms are clear and clean in color with strong, well branched stalks. A distinct imrovement in the amoena class.
White and red-purple bicolor. ‘Extravaganza‘ X ‘Wabash‘. Fairmount 1954. High Commendation 1951. Seedling #48-124. High Commendation 1953.

HC 1953, H.M 1954.

Provenance: Image 1 from L Munro, Newfoundland NJ, 2003. Iris received from Woodland Iris 2002.No longer available or growing in photographers garden. This lovely iris does not appear to be growing in any other gardens at this time. Please contact webmaster if you know where this named iris is growing.