Iris, IB 'Backlit Beauty' - Intermediate Bearded Iris
Iris 'Backlit Beauty' - Intermediate Bearded Iris
- flowering perennial that spreads by rhizomes
- showy late spring blooms stand above the leaves
- shortest bearded types tend to bloom first (mini and standard dwarfs; MDB, SDB), then mid-size (border and intermediate sizes; BB, IB), then tall bearded (TB)
- this is a late midseason blooming Intermediate Bearded
- grows to 25 inches tall
- typical flowers have 3 petal 'falls' with beards, and 3 petal 'standards' (uprights)
- falls and uprights are rosy violet with white edging, showing yellow at center; beards are orange to yellow with white tips
- this cultivar is a lightly ruffled luminata (coloring looks as if it glows!), and has a slight fragrance
- wide grass-like semi-evergreen leaves grow from surface rhizomes
- blooms reduce when overcrowded; benefits from division every 3-5 years
- plant shallowly, because rhizomes don't like to stay wet even when deep-growing roots do
- good for sunny areas, in well-drained soil
- grows in USDA zones 3-9
- ships as a freshly dug bareroot, wrapped in a soil-less medium to keep the roots damp
- ships during summer dormant season, after bloom time has passed
Iris 'Backlit Beauty' - Intermediate Bearded Iris
- flowering perennial that spreads by rhizomes
- showy late spring blooms stand above the leaves
- shortest bearded types tend to bloom first (mini and standard dwarfs; MDB, SDB), then mid-size (border and intermediate sizes; BB, IB), then tall bearded (TB)
- this is a late midseason blooming Intermediate Bearded
- grows to 25 inches tall
- typical flowers have 3 petal 'falls' with beards, and 3 petal 'standards' (uprights)
- falls and uprights are rosy violet with white edging, showing yellow at center; beards are orange to yellow with white tips
- this cultivar is a lightly ruffled luminata (coloring looks as if it glows!), and has a slight fragrance
- wide grass-like semi-evergreen leaves grow from surface rhizomes
- blooms reduce when overcrowded; benefits from division every 3-5 years
- plant shallowly, because rhizomes don't like to stay wet even when deep-growing roots do
- good for sunny areas, in well-drained soil
- grows in USDA zones 3-9
- ships as a freshly dug bareroot, wrapped in a soil-less medium to keep the roots damp
- ships during summer dormant season, after bloom time has passed
Iris 'Backlit Beauty' - Intermediate Bearded Iris
- flowering perennial that spreads by rhizomes
- showy late spring blooms stand above the leaves
- shortest bearded types tend to bloom first (mini and standard dwarfs; MDB, SDB), then mid-size (border and intermediate sizes; BB, IB), then tall bearded (TB)
- this is a late midseason blooming Intermediate Bearded
- grows to 25 inches tall
- typical flowers have 3 petal 'falls' with beards, and 3 petal 'standards' (uprights)
- falls and uprights are rosy violet with white edging, showing yellow at center; beards are orange to yellow with white tips
- this cultivar is a lightly ruffled luminata (coloring looks as if it glows!), and has a slight fragrance
- wide grass-like semi-evergreen leaves grow from surface rhizomes
- blooms reduce when overcrowded; benefits from division every 3-5 years
- plant shallowly, because rhizomes don't like to stay wet even when deep-growing roots do
- good for sunny areas, in well-drained soil
- grows in USDA zones 3-9
- ships as a freshly dug bareroot, wrapped in a soil-less medium to keep the roots damp
- ships during summer dormant season, after bloom time has passed
