Photo Courtesy of Brighton Park Iris

ORIGINATOR: Schreiner INTRODUCED: 1963 CLASS: Tall Bearded HEIGHT: 38" BLOOM SEASON: Early DESCRIPTION: Pure white ground, daintily marked light blue; soft yellow beard. PARENTAGE: (Caroline Jane x Belle Meade) X Dotted Swiss AWARDS: HC'60, HM'66 INTERESTING INFO: From 1963 Schreiner’s Iris Lovers Catalog: This is the bluest of the blue plicatas – an iris whose snowy ground is edged a delightful cerulean blue. Not as fancy an iris as Rococo but bluer. Newport won is spurs the year after the American Iris Society met in Oregon (1960), having been given a Highly Commended award by the AIS judges.