Cotsgold with a tantalizing bright gold self, including the beard, tinged orange, with narrow leaves and erect stems rising over the clock face in a timely symmetry, has been designed by Moorcroft’s senior designer to give you a golden hour every day. Bearing flowers with three large pendent fall petals, oozing a marmalade glow as they spread down to the foot of the clock, alternate with three erect, smaller, standard petals, neatly tucked into the side of the clock face.
The West and Midlands Iris Group celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2024, and to mark the occasion, wished to honour its first Chairman, John Taylor, by creating a design holding the name of the first iris he registered in 1974. John is one of the great names within the iris world, with his hybridising centred on bearded irises like Cotsgold. A highly respected judge, John won a Dykes Medal for 'Cotsgold' (IB, 1978). John and his wife, Mary, were the hosts for the Groups’ first garden visit at their Cotswold home in Moreton-in-Marsh in 1975, where Mary became known for her scrumptious teas.
