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Chelsea Flower Show favourites glorious Irises!

Posted:29 May 2010

Brighton-based designer Andy Sturgeon won both gold and Best in Show Garden at CFS with his contemporary gravel garden. A wonderful and adventurous garden in many respects the free-standing rusted steel structures framing stunning planting.  Our eyes were particularly drawn to three large dramatic bowls of bronze coloured irises (Iris ‘Action Front’).

We also loved the stunning display put on by Cayeux, the French Iris specialists. The logistics of exhibiting at Chelsea Flower Show were quite a challenge for Cayeux their nursery in France has no poly tunnels, all irises being grown in 55 acres of open fields. Thus the plants shown at Chelsea were grown in England by the nursery Iris of Sissinghurst, in pots from rhizomes sent over in August 2009 from the Cayeux fields in France. www.iris-cayeux.com

Irises are well suited to dry, hot conditions.  The following planting/care info is taken from the Cayeux website:

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