Congratulations Sue for putting a picture of the base of the foliage.
C.

I have several with purple based foliage, this is one of the more striking ones!

You are perfectly right Sue. A very striking base for a very unusual iris. As I was asking Fritz Lehman why the German irises were not so well known the answer was that German hybridizers were doing so more as a hobby. Many amazing irises among these, olidies or new ones, which worth really to be known. Loreley is a very nice name, ringing many bells here in Europe.