3-4' plants are topped with rather flat, richly colored blooms. We are crazy about the color and grow Iris fulva near a coppery sculpture in the garden. Iris anchors the edge of sunny ponds with butter-yellow flowers and provides a graceful vertical form. Its bold, almost tropical look casts pleasing reflections at the water's edge. The handsome, narrow, graceful leaves reach the tops of the flowering stems.
Flowers are an unusual fuschia-purple with faint yellow tones and white veins.
Grows vigorously in the water garden or in average soil, and blooms in early summer. Thanks to our friend Wayne Amos for sharing our stock plants. The narrow, vertical lance-like foliage of Siberian iris is handsome all season, and fading blooms yield seed pods on long stems that are nice in dried arrangements. Full sun and moist to average soils yield most prolific bloom. The Japanese brought this species from China and for many years planted it on the thatched roofs of traditional homes.