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Miniature Dwarf Bearded
The smallest and earliest of the bearded Iris. Starts to bloom here in early May. Up to 8" tall. They make good rock garden and Border plants. They can be subject to winter heaving. Top award is the Caparne-Welch Medal (CW). Caperne Award (CA) was earlier equivilant to Award of Merit (AM).
6.00 AFRICAN WINE (Kasperek 1999)M 8" Dark wine red with darker falls; Lighter rim on falls; HM AM CW
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10.00 AQUADOODLE (Aitken 2008 )ML 5.0" White standards; falls purple with white rim; tangerine beard.
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8.00 BADGE (Black, P 2007)EM 6" Mid yellow with dark wine plicata stripes and rim; white beard.
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12.00 BE BRIEF (Black 2008 )M 7" Dark purple stitching on butter ground; falls near solid; purple beard.
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5.00 BE LITTLE (Aitken 2001) ML 7" Red-violet standards & wide plicata rim on light yellow ground falls; lavender beard. HM
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6.00 BLUE WHISKERS (Welch 1960 )E 9" Yellow self with blue beards. HM
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6.00 BLUE WIND (Spence 1982)E 8" Light blue with cream beard; prolific bloomer. HM
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7.00 CHEMISTRY( Black 2003 )M 7" Grape Standards; falls dark red-purple; Dark orange beard. HM AM
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4.00 DAINTY MORSEL (Hager 1994) EM6" Pink-apricot with red stripes on falls; tangerine beard.
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7.50 DOLLOP OF CREAM (Black 2006) EM 8" Cream glaciata; white & lemon beard.
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5.00 R FOREVER VIOLET (Chapman 2002) ML7.5" Smooth violet self with dark violet beard and streak from beard to petal edge.
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2009