IRIS 'Jane Phillips' (TB)
Medium
Sun
Blue
Well drained soil
Spring
RHS Award of Garden Merit
100% Peat Free
Description
Iris 'Jane Phillips'
Height x Spread: 85cm x 60cm
A fantastic vanilla-scent exudes from the flowers of this elegant iris during late spring. Iris 'Jane Phillips' is a rhizomatous perennial bearing pale blue flowers; the pale blue falls become white with golden veins leading towards a white beard. The sword-shaped foliage is a green/grey in colour.
'Jane Phillips' thrives in well-drained soil, in a hot sunny spot in flower beds or borders. The rhizomes can be divided from midsummer to autumn.
Available for Mail Order from April - August
All parts of this plant are toxic.
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