Different types of Iris

Dear Friends

when we started this adventure we had some ideas about iris. Actually it was quite tough to find any complete explanation about this flowers.

After a little while, we were by the way able to fully understand the differences between the flowers and we also understood their different behaviour.

Let's try to make it clear to everyone, in a very simple way: we could divide the types of iris in 4 different kinds.

1) Iris Germanica
2) Iris Pallida (Dalmatica)
3) Iris Florentina
4) Iris Pseudocorus
5) Iris Hybrida

We think that some pictures from our fields can explain far better the differences between them:

IRIS GERMANICA (violet colour - 50 cm high, intense flavour)

 IRIS PALLIDA (pale violet colour - 50/100 cm high - very intense and delicate flavour)

 IRIS HYBRID (intense red colour - 70 cm high - very intense flavour)

 IRIS PSEUDOCORUS (yellow colour - 70 cm hign - no flavour)

 IRIS FLORENTINA (white colour - 70 -100 cm high - very intense and delicate flavour)

 Some more examples of Hybrids of Iris Pseudocorus and of Iris Germanica)