LUMARCO

€6.00

Something delicate: as much for the modest size of its flowers as for its pastel colouring. Soft pink standards and white falls with a fine light violet border, plicata-style. Long thick, very visible coral beards. Numerous flowers (average of 10), branching out in candelabra-style.

Flowering:Mid-season

MA MIE

€7.00

It is a pleasure for us to reintroduce this historic variety registered by Ferdinand Cayeux in 1906. This is a disploïd plicata with a white ground and blue-violet border. It produces a lot of small-sized flowers and is very vigorous.

Flowering:Mid-season

MACARON

€7.00

Excellent descendant of "Toile de Jouy"! Bright yellow standards, the falls a paler yellow with a small light brown border. Orange beards extended by a small, feathery, soft yellow spur. Round, well-bodied flowers, good branching, a great many buds (12 on average), ensuring a long flowering period.

MAGALI

€6.00

Delicate, cyclamen-pink flowers highlighted with golden yellow markings toward the throat. Beards are orange-yellow and styles a bright yellow.

Flowering:Mid-season

MAGICAL

€15.00

Magical’ can be considered as the point of culmination in the bubble-ruffled line of Joe Ghio. The domed standards are light peachy pink, and the flaring falls are creamy peach. Coral beards peachy pink shouldered. Super show branching with at least 8 buds, flowers remain fresh for 4 days. Exuberant shape, charming colour, in short, the perfect iris.

Flowering:Early to mid-season

MAGNETISME

€7.00

Sumptuous new variety with sky blue standards and satiny dark violet falls of as surprising luminosity. The falls are paler towards the dark rusty orange beards, shouldered with amaranth. Numerous ruffled flowers, low-branched stems, excellent foliage and long flowering-in short: a nearly perfect iris that is one of our favourites.

MAPLE TREAT

€8.00

A good son of the variety "Caliph". Medium brown standards and lighter orange-brown falls, paler below the deep gold beards. Rich colour, excellent garden value.

Flowering:Mid-season

MARBRE BLEU

€6.00

Wide and ruffled bright mid-blue falls with a white centre streaked with the same blue. Tangerine beards and vivid white standards. Sturdy stems and vigorous vegetation. First prize at the competition of Orleans in 1997.

MARCEL TURBAT

€6.00

Bright clear orange. Elegant flower lightened by tangerine beards. Dedicated to Monsieur Marcel Turbat who was an eminent member of the French Iris Society.

Flowering:Early to mid-season

MARIE-JOSE NAT

€6.00

Golden salmon pink standards and velvety purplish garnet falls with a narrow clearer rim. Thin and long tangerine beards. Large flowers. Named Marie-José Nat, after a famous French actress.

Flowering:Mid-season

MARIPOSA AUTUMN

€7.00

Rosy violet standards, white showing in centre. White falls dotted and banded with rosy violet. White beards tipped with violet. Moderately ruffled flowers, nicely shaped. Extremely vigorous, it increases very fast because ot its reflowering character (it often blooms again in October).

MARRON CHAUD

€7.50

This delight spreads its light brown-red standards above nearly horizontal garnet-red falls which boast exquisite lacy crimped edges. The glowing yellow beards seem lengthened by a 3 to 4 cm-long stripe running along the middle. These wonderful flowers are rather round and their stalks well branched.

Flowering:Mid-season

MARTILE ROWLAND

€7.00

New and truly interesting yellow: lemon yellow with bright and vivid red-orange beards on a small paler area. Ruffled and laced flowers.

MARY FRANCES

€6.00

Perfection in lilac tones. Broad and ruffled lilac flowers slightly clearer around the lilac beards.

Flowering:Mid-season to late

MASAÏ MARA

€15.00

The red iris is the dream of all iris hybridisers … it has never been realised but the cross between ‘Hermès’ and ‘Dame de coeur’ gave us this sympathetic red coppered with beards between tangerine and red. Average sized flowers, well-branched stems and good growth.

MAYAN SUNRISE

€15.00

Standards light blue, yellow infusions; falls blue-white, mid to dark yellow bands mostly at hafts; beards yellow in throat, blue at end.

MEGABUCKS

€8.00

Golden yellow standards slightly coppered. Bright fuchsia falls edged copper-brown. Long coppered yellow beards. 8 to 9 buds per stalk.

MELTED BUTTER

€6.00

White standards infused with soft yellow at their base. White falls overlaid at the top with a soft butter yellow pattern. Orange yellow beards. 6 to 8 broad ruffled flowers on well-branched stalks. Very vigorous, forming quickly large and decorative clumps.

Flowering:Mid-season to late

MER DE CRÊTE

€15.00

Magnificent MERRY AMIGO’S son ! Blue-white standards and wide almost horizontal falls, blue-pansy violet with satin aspect and paler edges. Yellow bronzed beards. Ruffled, well-branched and 8 buds on average.

Flowering:Mid-season

MER DU SUD

€7.00

A child of the excellent "Dusky Challenger". It is a rich navy blue (almost exempt from violet). Vigorous grower and often three flowers blooming at the same time. Medium blue beards. RHS Award of Garden Merit in 2000.

Flowering:Mid-season