IRIS English Cottage

IRIS English Cottage Flowers have white standards with traces of violet speckling and white falls with light violet plicata markings at haft. Flowers early season, May-June, and it is remontant. Ht. 90cm. Sp. 30cm. Tall bearded Iris. IRIS English Cottage was introduced by Lloyd Zurbrigg, 1976.  Read more about the hybridizer Lloyd Zurbrigg Bearded Irises are lifted and dispatched between September and October only. Orders can be placed any time of year when plants are available, however we will not dispatch your order until harvest time. Plants arrive as bareroot rhizomes ready for planting. Bearded Irises in the month of May are the keynote speakers in my garden – that sticky perfume and the intensity of colour of their flowers.  No other genus has flowers so blue, so brown or so black; in these colours Bearded Irises rule supreme. Bearded Irises must enjoy full sun (at least 6 hours a day) and a well drained soil.  They disdain the miseries of shade and clay.  Plant rhizomes just proud of the soil level in well drained soil with a PH between 6 and 8.  Remove flower stalks when finished and clear away dead leaves in autumn.  Do not cut back healthy leaves in summer.  For full details and other forms of Iris please visit our Iris Page