{"id":5996,"date":"2026-03-25T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2026-04-19T14:26:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:26:51","slug":"iris-innocent-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plant-highlights\/iris-innocent-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Iris &#8216;Innocent Star&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/iris_InnocentStar_20250329_8624.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>2025-03-29 iris &#8216;Innocent Star&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The ongoing drought has taken a toll on the spring flowers. But both in 2025 and 2026 the bearded iris &#8216;Innocent Star&#8217; has shone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.irises.org\/TbFthruJ\/TbInnocentStar\" target=\"_blank\">Iris Wiki<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.irises.org\/Main\/Bio\/HybridizerSuttonGeorge\">George Sutton<\/a> (founder of Sutton&#8217;s Iris Gardens) bred this cross of &#8216;Innocence Abroad&#8217; and &#8216;Rock Star&#8217; in 1999. Although it is listed as a tall bearded iris it is shorter than the two other tall bearded irises nearby. But had a lot of flowers and they lasted for several days even in our hot, dry March 2026. The brick red and creamy yellow flowers were a bright spot in an otherwise sad spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/iris_InnocentStar_20250330_8628.jpeg\" alt=\"bearded iris 'Innocent Star'\"\/><figcaption>2025-03-30 iris &#8216;Innocent Star&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/iris_InnocentStar_20260325_0434.jpeg\" alt=\"bearded iris 'Innocent Star'\"\/><figcaption>2026-03-25 iris &#8216;Innocent Star&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6011,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions\/6011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}