Lady Friend

Photo by Carlos Ayento; taken at Brighton Park Iris
Photo by Carlos Ayento; taken at Brighton Park Iris
Photo by Carlos Ayento; taken at Brighton Park Iris
Photo by Carlos Ayento; taken at Brighton Park Iris

ORIGINATOR: Joseph Ghio

INTRODUCED: 1981

CLASS: Tall Bearded

HEIGHT: 38"

BLOOM SEASON: Very-Early to Early

DESCRIPTION: Garnet red; red beard.

PARENTAGE: Indian Territory X Countryman

AWARDS: Honorable Mention 1983, Award of Merit 1985

PBF: None

INTERESTING INFO:
From the 1983 Bay View Gardens Catalog: New color: like orange sherbert with raspberry jam poured all over it. Tall, well branched, very vigorous, quite early.

From the 1984 Schreiner's Iris Lovers Catalog: A real hybridizing breakthrough!...a new dichromatic garnet-rose shade! For those who long for reanimation in rose hues this unique garnet-rose cast is in a class by itself. Most individual! This enticing "Lady Friend" presents us with an example of the ever-expanding chromatic scale of colors possible in Iris. A color that packs a real wallop. Equally important, both the freedom of bloom and excellent growth habit often give a single plant several stems per year. Exuberant is its first name!