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You can browse irises by name, size, colour group, flowering time, style, or qualities (such as prizewinning, perfumed, reblooming irises, and historic irises). You can also buy our virgin olive oil (collection only) and view our holiday rentals. Please note that for most of our irises there are (subject to availability) significant discounts if you order 3 or 5 of the same variety in the same order.
Important notice! We supply irises as bare root rhizomes which are dug from the field to your order and therefore they can only be delivered during the lifting season, in September-October each year, and there is a cut off date for orders after which any orders will be suppled the following year. For delivery in 2026, we are accepting orders up until 18 October 2026, inclusive, for orders destined for Italy and the EU, and 20 September 2026 for orders destined for the UK. Orders placed after those dates will not be delivered until 2027.
Dating to 1932, this historic iris was bred from the famous iris “Amas”, which was one of the first tetraploid Irises to be widely circulated, and as such was one of the most significant Iris of its time, used extensively in early Iris breeding. The consequence of having tetraploid DNA was that Amas and its many children had much larger flowers than the diploid irises which had up to that point been all that was available to gardeners. Blue Gown has large dark purplish blue flowers with bright gold beard. It is tall and grows very vigorously.
Risalente al 1932, questa iris storica è stata ottenuta incrociando la famosa iris “Amas”, una delle prime iris tetraploidi ad essere ampiamente diffusa e, come tale, una delle iris più significative del suo tempo, utilizzata intensamente nei primi ibridazioni di iris. La conseguenza del DNA tetraploide fu che Amas e i suoi numerosi discendenti presentavano fiori molto più grandi rispetto alle iris diploidi, che fino ad allora erano le uniche disponibili per i giardinieri. Blue Gown ha grandi fiori blu violacei scuri con una barba dorata brillante. È alta e cresce molto vigorosamente.