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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.
Florentina is a historic iris dating to at least 1500, first recorded by Linnaeus in 1753.The flowers are an opalescent creamy white with gray-blue tints and smell strongly of violets.But it is the rhizomes of this iris and of iris pallida which are the source of the precious orris root essential oil, used in perfumery. Good in mass planting, especially as the leaves typically remain green in winter.
L’iris “Florentina” è una varietà storica che risale almeno al 1500, menzionata per la prima volta da Linneo nel 1753. I fiori sono di un bianco crema opalescente con sfumature grigio-blu e un intenso profumo di violetta. Ma sono le rizome di questa iris e dell’iris pallida la fonte del prezioso olio essenziale di radice di iris, utilizzato in profumeria. È ideale per piantagioni in massa, soprattutto perché le foglie rimangono generalmente verdi anche in inverno.