Frank Adams
[V]
What's This?
E. G. Lapham, 1937
Iris Class:
Bearded
Bearded Class:
Tall Bearded
Age:
1930-1939
Fall Color:
Red/Maroon
Standard Color:
Fawn/Bronze
Pattern:
Variegata
Beard Color:
Orange/Deep Yellow
Hybridizer:
Lapham
Rarity:
Available - not endangered
Full Description
TB 48″ ML Y9M
A classic – hardy, with very vigorous growth. Now after all these years it is widespread across the country.
From Cooley’s Gardens catalog for 1940: “A tall and very well proportioned large new iris with rosy tan standards and rosy red falls. Produced by E.G. Lapham, of Elkhart Indiana. Flowers, stalk and foliage are of unusually large size.”
From National Iris Garden’s catalog for 1942: “Golden-bronze and red. Closed standards of golden-bronze; velvety, down-falling falls of medium rose-red, with veining on gold ground conspicuous at haft. Large flowers on good stalks.”