Iris sibirica Cool Spring - Siberian Iris

Go for lavender blue with the spring flowers of the Siberian Iris 'Cool Spring'. Fond of moist to wet soil, it is perfect for embellishing the edges of a pond. This architectural, clump-forming perennial plant can easily be integrated into a flower bed or a mixed border in an English garden. Once established, it tolerates drought quite well and requires little maintenance.

Iris sibirica 'Cool Spring' is a rhizomatous perennial plant and deciduous member of the Iridaceae family. The wild species, Siberian iris, grows on heathlands and wet meadows in central and eastern Europe, northeastern Turkey, and Russia. The offered varieties are mainly the result of hybridisation between Iris sibirica and Iris sanguinea. Their flowers are generally larger and display a wide range of colours.
This variety of Siberian iris 'Cool Spring' offers beautiful lavender blue flowers in May-June. They consist of three sepals in lavender blue tinged with yellow at the base and veined with a deeper blue. The three petals and stigmas are of a slightly lighter shade of lavender blue. Its large flowers rise up to 1m above the ground, well above the clump of linear and green, deciduous leaves which turn yellow in autumn before drying up.

With the Siberian iris 'Cool Spring', play with shades of blue. Create your flower beds and borders by combining it with other perennials that thrive in moist soil and have blue flowers, such as Camassia 'Blue Melody', Delphinium belladonna 'Bellamosum', or Aquilegia 'Clementine Blue' with double flowers. The colour blue is very present in the range of Siberian irises, so don't hesitate to mix them. Besides, the effect is greater when they are planted in large groups. Here are some varieties that might catch your attention: 'Blue King' with blue-violet flowers, 'Blue Moon' with bluish-violet flowers, or 'Concorde Crush' with intense blue-violet double flowers.