FLORENTINE SILK - 2005 - TB

This is a PRE-SALE. SHIPPING BEGINS MID TO LATE JULY. You will receive One healthy rhizome.   Florentine Silk - Tall Bearded IrisKeppel 2005Honorable Mention 2007Franklin Cook Cup 2007Award of Merit 2009WISTER MEDAL 2011AMERICAN DYKES MEDAL 2012This impressive, MULTI award winning descendent of "Poem of Ecstacy" has peach pink standards and wide ruffled lavender falls with a 1/4" rosy pink band. With later sporadic summer blooms, the band may blend inward, reminiscent of watered silk. Peach orange beards with a white base are frosted with blue at the ends. Grows to 40 inches tall and blooms mid to late season.Iris rhizomes are best divided and transplanted after the plants finish blooming and have enough time to store nutrition in their roots. July through September is the best time to dig them up in Ohio. All Iris are grown on my farm and shipped from my home, bareroot with foliage and roots attached. BONUS rhizomes are always included at an average rate of 1 for every 5 purchased...m