TB - Tall Bearded Irises
Tall Bearded Irises are the most common group of irises, often called garden irises. In this group you will find large-flowered irises, usually 70 cm to 120 cm high. In Europe, they come into bloom on around 10th May. We cultivate them with love in South Moravia region of the Czech Republic. They are easy to grow and fully frost-resistant. From tens of thousands of bred varieties you can find here our selection of the best, easily grown sorts coming mainly from European and American breeders. Flowers are large, mostly wavy, sometimes of exotic shapes, one- or multicolored, differently dotted or stripped, often pleasantly fragrant. Flowers grow on one main and 2-4 side stems. Each of them has 1-3 buds, so 7-12, even 15 flowers gradually bloom in one plant. These irises love sunny locations; they can be planted individually, or together with other perennials. Flowers are very suitable for cutting.
For better orientation, TB irises on these pages is possible to sort by height into two groups:
Tall Bearded Irises - higher than 90 cm
Tall Bearded Irises - up to 90 cm (71-89 cm) high
They can also be sorted by flower color, fragrance or flower type:
Self – i.e. one or more tones of one color
Bicolor – i.e. two different basic colors
Plicata – striped, dotted, splashed etc. on a white or colored base
Space Ager – with beards extended to a few cm in length - in the form of horns, spoons...
Broken Color – basic dark color with wild light splashing, or light background with dark pattern
We accept orders all year round, bareroot plants are sent (by Zásilkovna or Czech Post) from mid-July to the end of September. If you want to order both bearded irises (TB, SDB, MDB) and peonies, you need to order peonies on a separate order, because we send bearded irises in the summer, but peonies in autumn (or in early spring). Together with bearded irises - siberian and spuria irises, daylilies and hostas can be ordered.
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GOLDEN PANTHER (Tasco 2000)
Standards and falls heavily ruffled, gold overlaid bronze, highlighted darker bronze at edges. Beards mustard yellow. Height 85 cm.
CHASING RAINBOWS (Hager 1995)
Standards peach pink, purple blended up midrib, falls buff, lavender and blue blend, violet veins, ruffled. Beards tangerine. Fine combination of colors, very suitable for a vase.
GNU (Kasperek 1994)
Standards light lavender ground washed medium lavender and off-white with medium violet splashes. Falls same, heavier medium violet purple on shoulders. Beards burnt orange tipped violet. Flowers ruffled and flared, slightly fragrant.
AILE VOLANTE (Cayeux 2013)
Standards salmon pink, violet infusions on edges, laced, falls light pink with a wide magenta border. Beards coral red, elongated to long magenta-violet spoon. Unique Space Age sort, breathtaking...
RUBAN BLEU (Cayeux 1997)
Standards white, falls blue, large white heart, blue venation, ruffled. Beards tangerine orange. Beautiful sort.
FLORENTINA
Flowers of a very faintly bluish shade rather than pure white with some greenish-yellow veining on the haft and a deep yellow beard. Wild species, coming from Italy and Southern Europe. Flowers very pleasantly fragrant!
CLOTHO'S WEB (Mego 2009)
Flowers wavy, standards blue, lightly stitched white at base, falls blue purple, around beards blue is overlaid with white veins, edges irregularly marked with light white commas. Beards cream base, tipped light orange, white at end. Slight sweet fragrance. Fine sort bred by Slovak grower Anton Mego.
LATE PICKINGS (Blyth 2012)
Standards bright yellow, falls bright yellow with light brown band, ruffled. Beards golden yellow. Height 90 cm. Pronounced sweet fragrance.
CHEVALIER DE MALTE (Cayeux 1998)
Standards light pinkish chamois, falls bright pinkish purple, large cream to salmon center. Beards bright, orange red. Excellent sort with perfectly branched stem. Fine fragrance.
GOLDKIST (Black 1993)
Standards white, falls white overlaid with a yellow gold band at the base and with purple veining in the throat, around the bright yellow beards. Not too big flowers, but a most unusual color combination.
BEL AVENIR (Cayeux 2008)
Standards soft lemon, more intense at the base, falls cream white with a wide deep blue-violet border, edges waved. Beards orange, edged with yellow. Slight pleasant fragrance of the flowers. Beautiful iris, the best of this combination of colours.
SLOVAK PRINCE (Mego 2003)
Standards white shaded orchid lavender, slight blue veining, gold rim, falls dark velvety blue purple, slightly lighter rim, white area around gold beard with purple veining changing to brown, ruffled. Slight sweet fragrance. Superb, world unique sort from the Slovak breeder.
HOLLYWOOD LIGHTS (Johnson 2011)
Standards buff gold lightly infused violet up midribs, falls dark purple, lighter orchid-purple bands blending into gold rims, ruffled. Beards orange. Sweet fragrance.
GOLDEN FASAN (Muska 2000)
Standards lemon cream with golden overlay, ruffled and laced, falls cream white with golden edge, strongly laced. Very long beards yellow and feathery fringed. Unique Space Age (SA Type) sort coming from Slovak breeder L. Muška.
LIBELLULE DE SOLOGNE (Bourdillon 2005)
Standards white, light blue violet midrib, falls light blue-violet, paler around the beard and on shoulders. Beards white with long light blueviolet flounces. Beautiful French iris of the Space Age Type.
GIRL'S FAVOURITE (Blyth 1995/96)
Medium bright pink self, beards bright coral. Ruffled flowers, vital and healthy growth. Pronounced sweet fragrance.
TOTAL CHAOS (Maryott 2000)
Standards light rose with irregular white streaking, falls deep smoky maroon, irregular white splashing overall, white blaze with some light maroon veining. Beards yellow, tipped orange. Pronounced sweet fragrance.
COPATONIC (Blyth 1995)
Standards russet brown, falls ruby brown with russet brown edge, heavily ruffled. Beards mustard yellow. Height 85 cm. Excellent grower, fine brown sort.
SPICED TIGER (Kasperek 1996)
Standards light brown splashed butter yellow, falls mahogany brown with silver white streaking, crinkled edges, ruffled.. Beards golden brown. Pronounced spicy fragrance.
germanica Spectabilis
Standards blue to blue-violet, falls blue-violet, bent down, around the white bears with a fine pattern. Height 40-50 cm. Blooms in May. Nice iris, especially suitable for sunny rock gardens. Flowering time April / May. Fine iris for sunny rock gardens.
GEORGETTE SILK (Blyth 2014)
Standards salmon pink, falls salmon pink, overlaid rose, prominent deeper rose textured veining and narrow salmon pink edge. Beards tangerine orange. Ruffed with lots of lace. Late blooming season. Excellent, very popular, but rare sort.
PALLIDA ALBA
Natural species growing on sunny places, fully frost-resistant in Czech Republic and Germany. Standards white, falls white, bented down. Beards white. Height 50-60 cm. Flowering time May. Fine iris for sunny flowerbeds.
GNU AGAIN (Kasperek 1994)
Standards medium violet with random off-white splashes, falls dark violet with random white breaks and splashes. Beards burnt orange tipped medium violet. Flowers ruffled. Slight pleasant fragrance.
CELESTIAL EXPLOSION (Tasco 2004)
Standards violet, falls cold white ground heavily peppered violet, darker violet rim. Beards white, tipped golden yellow. Sweet, pleasant fragrance.