Iris ensata 'Exuberant Chanty'
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• common name: Japanese iris
• flowering season: early summer
• height: 30 to 36 inches
• Light requirements: full sun, afternoon shade where summers are very warm
• Soil requirements: moist
• Water requirments: more than average water
• Growth habit: as a clump that grows quite wide in time
• How to propagate: dividing
• Leaf type: long, upright sword-like leaves
• Ways to use it: grows well in the average sunny garden as long as it can receive regular watering
• Special characteristics: this variety has an extended period of flowering
Three petals in a rich mid violet-blue is the color. This has an extended season of flowering as a flower stem will produce additional buds, and also a plant will send up flower stalks later in the season, after the primary Japanese iris season has passed. USDA Zones 5 - 10.