Fall Fiesta earns its name with a color combination you won't find in many other irises: cream standards floating above falls in a warm, burnished honey-amber — the palette of a late-afternoon autumn sky. This award-winning amoena packs 7–9 buds per stem with some triple-socketed stalks.
Type
Tall Bearded (TB)
Height
36" (91 cm)
Bloom Season
Late Midseason
Color
Standards are a crisp, clean white with just the faintest yellow warmth along the midribs and style arms; falls are a softly ruffled honey-amber tan with golden-yellow beards that echo the warm fall palette — an amoena with rare, burnished coloring
Form
Ruffled amoena; 5" flowers; 7–9 buds per stem, including some triple-socketed stalks
Fragrance
Not reported
Rebloom
Not in Texas
Bud Count
7–9 buds per stem; some triple-socketed
Hybridizer
Schreiner's Gardens, R. 1992
Year Intro.
1992
Awards
HM 1994
Notes
Parentage: seedling H766-A (Golden Plunder cross x Moon River) x seedling K870-1 (Gold Trimmings x Craig seedling). Rare amber-fall amoena coloring. Strong performer.
Fall Fiesta earns its name with a color combination you won't find in many other irises: cream standards floating above falls in a warm, burnished honey-amber — the palette of a late-afternoon autumn sky. This award-winning amoena packs 7–9 buds per stem with some triple-socketed stalks.
Type
Tall Bearded (TB)
Height
36" (91 cm)
Bloom Season
Late Midseason
Color
Standards are a crisp, clean white with just the faintest yellow warmth along the midribs and style arms; falls are a softly ruffled honey-amber tan with golden-yellow beards that echo the warm fall palette — an amoena with rare, burnished coloring
Form
Ruffled amoena; 5" flowers; 7–9 buds per stem, including some triple-socketed stalks
Fragrance
Not reported
Rebloom
Not in Texas
Bud Count
7–9 buds per stem; some triple-socketed
Hybridizer
Schreiner's Gardens, R. 1992
Year Intro.
1992
Awards
HM 1994
Notes
Parentage: seedling H766-A (Golden Plunder cross x Moon River) x seedling K870-1 (Gold Trimmings x Craig seedling). Rare amber-fall amoena coloring. Strong performer.
