Description
Iris Blue Flag ‘Gerald Darby’
Iris versicolor x virginica ‘Gerald Darby’
Zone: 3-7
Exposure: Full Sun to Part Shade
Mature Size: 3ft H, 2ft W
Flower Colour: violet-blue
Flowering Time: late spring to early summer
Description: Iris x robusta ‘Gerald Darby’ is a rhizomatous perennial forming a clump of narrow, arching, sword-shaped leaves stained puprle at their base. In late spring to early summer, unbranched purplish stems boasting 3-4 violet-blue flowers adorned with deep yellow signals on mostly white falls. Very beautiful in and out of bloom, Gerld Darby is a central landscape plant for the water garden, near ponds and streams.
Ornamental Features: Low maintenance, attracts many pollinators, spreads quickly, Has beautiful blue and white flowers in the spring and early summer
Landscape Features: a welcomed addition to beds and borders, cottage gardens, bog gardens, water gardens, and near streams or ponds, where it will provide excellent colour contrast
