Swizzle
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Ben Hager 1971/1972
Iris Class:
Bearded
Bearded Class:
Intermediate Bearded
Age:
1970-1979
Fall Color:
Yellow Ground Any Stitch
Standard Color:
Yellow ground Any Stitch
Pattern:
Plicata
Beard Color:
Gold/Tan
Hybridizer:
Hager B

Full Description

IB, 20″ (51 cm), Late midseason bloom. Standards yellow ground, peppered brown; falls bright yellow ground, edged with brown plicata markings; bronze beard. ‘Tan Sun’ X ‘Tiffy’. Melrose Gardens 1972. Honorable Mention 1973; Award of Merit 1975; Sass Medal 1979.
SWIZZLE (Hager ’72)-A beautifully formed flower of bright yellow peppered brown. Its plant is an admirable one. It will rebloom in this area, but then, one of its parents is the rebloomer ‘Tan Sun’. [Joe Gatty, “A Median Review,” The Bulletin of the American Iris Society, Vol. 55, No. 214 (July 1974): 56.]