Historic Standard Bearded Dwarf Iris 30cm.
Early to Mid Season flowering, May and June in the UK.
Listed in the Old Brook Gardens catalogue of 1976: “Classic smooth pale to light sky blue...self... with a clean white beard.”
We find the flowers delicately fade over a few days.
Hybridised by the late Beatrice Warburton in 1975 from multiple crosses
Honourable Mention in 1979.
Bee was awarded the Foster Memorial Plague, by the British Iris Society, in 1926 for her contribution to the Iris genus.
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(B. Warburton, R. 1975) Sdlg. 500-1. SDB, 12" (30 cm), EM. Light blue (RHS 100D) self; white beard. 84N-3: ((Blue Denim x (blue pumila x Spanish Peaks)) x (((Little Shadow x Zwanimir) x Blue Denim) x Truce)) X 36N0-2: ((((white TB x blue pumila) x sib) x (Love Affair x I. cretica)) x (Knotty Pine x Truce)). Old Brook 1976. HM 1979.
Bee was awarded the Foster Memorial Plague, by the British iris Society, in 1926 for her contribution to the Iris genus.
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