Iris 'Alida' Acer palmatum 'Starfish' The tree's delicately weeping boughs

The tree's delicately weeping boughs are adorned with purple-tinged green leaves in the spring

can be planted in full sun or partial shade

tapering petals in a star-like formation

The lobed leaves of this variety bear a lush

A bright spot out of direct sun is ideal

Iris 'Alida' Acer palmatum 'Starfish' The tree's delicately weeping boughsIris Dwarf Alida has single, fragrant, sky blue to bright blue flowerheads with sepals or exterior petals with a central band of yellow (a marked central yellow ridge) that is spotted with blue freckles accompanied by slender four sided foliage that can grow up to 30cm. Feathered inner petals or standard are often of a paler sky blue shade and rise up out of the centre of the bloom fluttering like a butterfly. Fragrant blooms of fabulous sky blue