New Plants At RHS Chelsea 2013
Cayeux Iris
Stand GPC6
Website www.iris-cayeux.com
Le Rial, 81140, Vaour, France
Iris
‘Fleur de Feu’
With large, amply-waved flowers, ‘Fleur de Feu’ has pure yellow standards and horizontal lemon-yellow falls which feature a clear, fine burgundy border. Upright stalks. Warm orange beards.
Flowers mid to late season.
Height: 80cm.
Iris
‘Barbe Noire’
A seedling brother of 2011 introduction ‘Faïence de Gien’, this taller cultivar has elegant, lower branching stalks which carry 7 to 8 buds. Standards are milk-white while the very wide white falls have violet and purplish black borders
and fine veined lines which run parallel to the
golden yellow beards. Flowers mid season.
Height: 85cm.
Iris
‘Nelly Tardivier’
Named in in memory of Madame Tardivier, former director of the Jardins des Tuileries at the Louvre, this iris has numerous ruffled flowers (11 on average) with medium-sized standards. The nearly horizontals falls of amaranth, with borders which turn to a light pink copper tone and
bronze-coloured beards make an exotic combination. Flowers mid season.
Height: 85cm.
Iris
‘Nelly Tardivier’
Named in memory of Madame Tardivier, former director of the Jardins des Tuileries at the Louvre, this iris has numerous ruffled flowers (11 on average) with medium sized standards. The nearly horizontals falls of amaranth, with borders which turn to a light pink copper tone and bronze-coloured beards make an exotic combination. Flowers mid season.
Height: 85cm.
Iris
‘Saphir Jaune’
A rare bicolor iris which features pale lavender-
blue standards, falls of yellow with a hint of ochre or golden yellow and thin, neat white ruffles. Subtle orangey-yellow beards. This late flowering
cultivar produces an average of 8 buds per stem.
Height: 80cm.
Iris
‘Villa Erba’
Bred from ‘Paul Black’ and ‘Alpenview’, this
inversed amoena is dedicated to Villa Erba, the
residence of the famous Italian film-director,
Luchino Visconti. Large flowers (15cm x 15cm)
with wisteria-blue standards which are darker at the centre, while the large bluish-white
falls are undulated with ruffles. Mandarin coloured beards with lighter tips. Vigorous and fragrant. Flowers early to mid season.
Height:90cm.
Iris
‘Tel Arlequin’
A descendant of ‘Noctambule’ which features yellow standards with slightly amber edges that
stand above plum-violet falls. Orange beards
are framed by bright-yellow. Low branching stalks carry an average of 8 buds. Flowers mid season. Height: 80cm.
Iris
‘Domino Noir’
Previewed as an unnamed cultivar at last year’s
Chelsea Flower Show and now commercially available for the first time. This iris has benefitted from years of research to obtain the contrasting
pure white standards with imperceptible violet border and jet-black falls. Goldenyellow beards.
Ruffled-edged flowers are produced on well branched stalks. Flowers mid season.
Height 85cm
.