The English Iris Company

40 years in pursuit of perfection. We are an Independent British Iris Specialist, we grow and breed all our iris plants in UK. As a result you can be confident that our Exclusive British Bearded Irises suit the British weather.

Collections of these Exclusive British Bearded Irises can be viewed at Doddington near Lincoln, Newnham College in Cambridge and at The Old Vicarage Garden in East Ruston, Norfolk. 

The UK Dykes Medal is the premier award of the iris hybridising world. It was initiated in 1927 by John Rikatson Dykes, a founder member of the RHS and author of the ‘Genus Iris’, published in 1913.

Bryan Dodsworth won the coveted medal twelve times. No one has been awarded the UK Dykes Medal previously more than four times, in over ninety years. His record of Award Winning Bearded Irises is unlikely to be beaten and makes him without question the most celebrated twentieth century British Hybridiser of Tall Bearded Irises.