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Pacific Coast Irises, Iris x pacifica

   We have sold out of Pacific Coast Irises for this spring, and will be offering them again starting on August 31, 2026.
   This page contains hybrids of irises that are native to northern California and southern Oregon. They are best grown in soil that is acid, such as soil amended with a generous amount of humus or well-rotted compost. Filtered light or partial shade is best in most gardens, especially when grown in climates different from their native range. Mulching during winter is recommended where winter climates are more severe. Some of these are few in numbers and so are limited to one plant per person where indicated.

   For more information on what these irises need, click here.

Iris 'Bar Code'

$14.95 (Ghio '04) White lined with purple edges on falls. And it grows vigorously. This is one of Joseph Ghio's many lovely pacifica iris introductions.
Tied for the 2011 Sydney B. Mitchell Medal, the highest award for Pacific Coast irises.

Iris 'Blue a Fuse'

$11.95 (Ghio '15) White with dotted blue signal and blue styles.

Iris 'Bonus Points'

$14.95 (Ghio '09 ?) A plicata of white with blue stitching, and dark blue styles in the center.

Iris 'Cashing In'

$14.95 (Ghio '08) Wide, overlapping bright gold self.

Iris 'Cheddar Cheese'

$14.95 (Ghio '17) Cheddar gold standards and styles. Falls are the same cheddar gold around thumbprints of cream and violet at the base of the petals. Triangle form and pie crust ruffling.

Iris 'Chemeketa'

$14.95 (Ghio '13) Rustic shades of rose and henna. Rose signal.

Iris 'Chualar'

$13.95 (Ghio '11) Wine-rose blending to apricot-gold, with lighter styles of pale lavender-pink.

Iris 'Clarification'

$13.95 (Ghio '09) Rosy wine orchid self with very ruffled styles.

Iris 'Columbia Street'

$16.95 (Ghio '16) The standards are copper rose while the falls are copper with dark purple signals. One plant per person, please.

Iris 'Costanoa'

$14.95 (Ghio '11) Pure white self with clear mid blue styles and gold and blue signals. One plant per person, please.

Iris 'Drip Drop'

$13.95 (Ghio '00) A white ground plicata in three colors -- golden signal, creamy white in the center and a wide splash of purple at the tips of the standards and falls. With veins standing out in gold and purple.

Iris 'Fireflow''

$16.95 (Ghio '08) Ruffled flowers of a very dark blood red surrounding a golden center. The petals and sepals are partially edged in a thin line of gold. One plant per person, please.

Iris 'Follow the Money'

$17.95 (Ghio '15) Rusty copper melon. One plant per person, please.

Iris 'Going Bananas'

$15.95 (Ghio '10) Creamy lemon yellow. The signals are a lighter thumb print of cream on the falls.
2022 Mitchell Medal

Iris 'Idylwild'

$11.95 (Ghio '87) Combines falls of medium lavender-blue with a very ruffly center buff of lighter standards. The lavender-blue falls are colored lighter at their edges, and have a creamy center line.
1996 Mitchell Medal

Iris 'Life Force'

$15.95 (Ghio '06) Medium to light lavender-pink. Dark wine signals, and pie crust ruffling.

Iris 'Line Drawing'

$14.95 (Ghio '09) White ground, with purple styles and blue stitching on fall edges.
2021 Mitchell Medal

Iris 'Lines That Rhyme'

$14.95 (Ghio '03) Gold plicata with reddish brown veining and dotting. We thank Richard Berenter of San Rafael, California for giving us this plant, as well as several others on this list.
2013 Mitchell Medal

Iris 'Mandalay Bay'

$13.95 (Ghio '08) Ruffled and crimped flowers of bright yellow with cream at the base.

Iris 'Marriage Proposal'

$17.95 (Ghio '03) Dusky rose with undulating ruffles, and the degree of dusky is variable. One plant per person, please.

Iris 'Mission Hill'

$13.95 (Ghio '14) Brassy gold self with pie crust ruffling. One plant per person, please.

Iris 'Ocean Blue'

$11.95 (Ghio '03) White ground washed and lined overall with mid-blue.
2012 Mitchell Medal

Iris 'Open Eyes'

$18.95 (Ghio '11) The standards are reddish-brown, a color that Joe Ghio, its hybridizer, refers to as root beer. The falls are gold edged in the same root beer color, with purple signals at their base.

Iris 'Pacific Dome'

$17.95 (Belardi '06) Bubbly blue with a purple cast, lightening at the edges.

Iris 'Pretty Boy'

$13.95 (Ghio '01) Peach self with ruffled edges and small maroon signals.

Iris 'Sierra Azul'

$15.95 (Ghio '97) Very bubbly cream and light azure blue. Beautiful foliage with a hint of blue in the green leaves. One plant per person, please.
2005 Mitchell Medal

Iris 'Silver Moon'

$11.95 Ruffly flowers of cream to a very delicate lilac, blushed a bit darker towards the inner part of the falls. This is unregistered with the American Iris Society. The first of the irises on this page to begin blooming in spring, and very strong growing.

Iris 'Sizzling Pitch'

$17.95 (Ghio '08) Dark red standards and falls lightening in a thin line along the edges, and with ochre styles. One plant per person, please.

Iris 'Wilder Ranch'

$16.95 (Ghio '13) Reddish brown at the tips of the falls, morphing to gold and cream, with wavy edges and neon violet signals. The standards and styles are a light henna and ruffled.
2025 Mitchell Medal

Our mother plants of irises are organized into 6-foot rows, one variety per row, that are spaced 18 inches apart in a bed that is 50 feet long.

growing bed for Iris Pacific Coast hybrids