Iris ensata Dinner Plate Jell-O

Japanese Iris Ensata Dinner Plate Jell-O is a large-flowered variety of iris with pink-purple flowers with interesting white stripes and a golden-yellow center. The flowers are usually up to 15 cm large. The flowers are also excellent for cutting. They are suitable for the banks of ponds, but they also like denser and well-watered flower beds. They bloom in early summer.

How to grow Japanese iris

Iris ensata is a full-sun iris growing naturally in open wet fields in eastern Asia. Iris ensata has a vertical growth habit like most other iris species. Its large flowers come in different shades of blue. It needs to be grown in an acid humus-rich soil, with regular watering between early March and the end of July. Iris ensata can be planted in a sunny place in the garden, at the banks of a pond or slow flowing streams, or in wet places that are not flooded during the winter. It may prove necessary to cover the young plants through the first winter (with mulch, straw or bark shavings etc.) especially in the case of late planting.