Iris cristata Powder Blue Giant Xeriscaping Plants this fine southern native is

this fine southern native is one of the best of the blue stars

We figure the North American (NC south to Florida) native Ampelaster carolinianus watched too many old kudzu movies

You will see a few self-sown seedlings after the second year

8' tall specimens with bizarrely branching fronds

pleated leaves emerge from each pseudobulb in early spring (April for us)

Iris cristata Powder Blue Giant Xeriscaping Plants this fine southern native isIris cristata 'Powder Blue Giant' is a superb form of our native deer resistant Iris cristata, discovered by Samuel Norris (who created the first xPardancandas) of Owensboro, Kentucky, in the early 1960s in a 200 yard long bank of Iris cristata in Litchfield, Kentucky. Iris cristata 'Powder Blue Giant' was registered and named by Joe Pye Weed Gardens, Massachusetts, in 1998. The light blue flowers, to 3" wide, are gigantic for this species and a