Siberian Iris Peacock Butterfly Festive Coquette ®

Siberian Iris Festive Coquette blends lavender pink standards with heavily dappled deep antique pink falls, softly edged in apricot and finished with yellow-gold signals. Midseason, strong stems to 70 cm carry the blooms neatly above the foliage. Siberian Iris Festive Coquette prefers sun to part shade and evenly moist, humus-rich soil; a dependable perennial with refined color for pond edges and borders. Introduced by Marty Schafer and Jan Sacks in 2018.

How to grow Japanese iris

Iris ensata is a full-sun iris growing naturally in open wet fields in eastern Asia. Iris ensata has a vertical growth habit like most other iris species. Its large flowers come in different shades of blue. It needs to be grown in an acid humus-rich soil, with regular watering between early March and the end of July. Iris ensata can be planted in a sunny place in the garden, at the banks of a pond or slow flowing streams, or in wet places that are not flooded during the winter. It may prove necessary to cover the young plants through the first winter (with mulch, straw or bark shavings etc.) especially in the case of late planting.