Iris cristata Powder Blue Giant Xeriscaping Plants rainy summer climates

rainy summer climates

8' tall specimens with bizarrely branching fronds

a real winner

pleated leaves emerge from each pseudobulb in early spring (April for us)

which sported from another hard-to-find NC introduction

Iris cristata Powder Blue Giant Xeriscaping Plants rainy summer climatesIris cristata 'Powder Blue Giant' is a superb form of our native deer resistant Iris cristata, discovered by Samuel Norris (who created the first xPardancandas) of Owensboro, Kentucky, in the early 1960s in a 200 yard long bank of Iris cristata in Litchfield, Kentucky. Iris cristata 'Powder Blue Giant' was registered and named by Joe Pye Weed Gardens, Massachusetts, in 1998. The light blue flowers, to 3" wide, are gigantic for this species and a