Easter Candy is a Tall Bearded Iris with an exceptionally long bloom cycle beginning with the early season iris and ending with the late. This has been one of the first Iris to open our season in N. Texas. Bud Count is high and color is complex and cheery. Grows excellent in the South, with lots of rhizome production.
Type: Tall Bearded (TB)
Height 37" (94 cm)
Bloom: Early to Late Season
Color
Standards light yellow; style arms same with faint lavender midrib; falls light lavender-blue, center shading to paler on remainder, shoulders touched citron yellow; beards chrome yellow, lavender-blue at tip end
Form: Ruffled; noted for numerous stems and flawless form
Fragrance n/a
Rebloom
No
Bud Count
High (noted for numerous stems)
Hybridizer
Keith Keppel, R. 2011
Year
2011 (Keppel 2011)
Awards
HM 2013; Favorite Guest 2013; AM 2015
Notes
Parentage: 'Haut Les Voiles' x 'Bollywood' sibling. An extended bloom season variety, early through late. Award-winning bicolor.
Easter Candy is a Tall Bearded Iris with an exceptionally long bloom cycle beginning with the early season iris and ending with the late. This has been one of the first Iris to open our season in N. Texas. Bud Count is high and color is complex and cheery. Grows excellent in the South, with lots of rhizome production.
Type: Tall Bearded (TB)
Height 37" (94 cm)
Bloom: Early to Late Season
Color
Standards light yellow; style arms same with faint lavender midrib; falls light lavender-blue, center shading to paler on remainder, shoulders touched citron yellow; beards chrome yellow, lavender-blue at tip end
Form: Ruffled; noted for numerous stems and flawless form
Fragrance n/a
Rebloom
No
Bud Count
High (noted for numerous stems)
Hybridizer
Keith Keppel, R. 2011
Year
2011 (Keppel 2011)
Awards
HM 2013; Favorite Guest 2013; AM 2015
Notes
Parentage: 'Haut Les Voiles' x 'Bollywood' sibling. An extended bloom season variety, early through late. Award-winning bicolor.
