Lion king perhaps?

Thanks chickweed but I cant find a match to this one.

The foliage looks like a Spuria hybrid, bu I'm having a hard time finding a color match. The picture is a little unclear: is there a beard on the falls? If so, it's not a Spuria.

They don't have beards, I thought I'd put that in my question, sorry Tug.

Hmm...Spurias are rhizomatous, but the rhizomes are short. The foliage doesn't look like a "Dutch" Iris, but that doesn't keep it from being one of their bulbous ancestors or cousins from north Africa or Spain. I'll keep looking, when I'm not running out of time! :)

Bless you Tug I have been pouring through my books too. My garden is very dry so I don't want to excavate to check the roots. Memory suggests a rootstock like Iris siberica or a very skinny rhizome that is below soil surface.
It certainly isn't a dutch iris I have plenty of those in the garden and the leaf is more like the ones you get on I unguicularis.

Looks like one of the Pacific coast hybrids which I used to grow.

Another friend of this lady has said it is a Pacific coast hybrid, Broadleigh Ann and she has several of it flowering well now.
so thanks for all your help. It's nice to have a name for it at last.

*smack head* I forgot all about the Pacific Coast hybrids! Ah, well, it's good to know what it is, anyway.

I only have a dim recollection of them existing but I have done a little reading up. the only problem it will have is its in alkaline soil so I will have to give it beech leaf mould top dressing. They are beautiful plants.