Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Barry Blyth
Year Of Registration: 2007
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2007
Seedling Number: N187-1
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 36 inches (91 cm)
Bloom Season: Early
Flower Form: Bubble Ruffled
Bloom Color Classification: Tan
Orchid
Bloom Color Description: Icy pink white standards, deepening to soft pink at midrib; light coffee chartreuse falls, coffee brown veining
Beard Color: Coffee pink

General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9b
Flowers: Showy
Underground structures: Rhizome
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Tetraploid
Parentage: Chardonnay and Ice X Reckless in Denim
Child plants: 7 child plants

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Common names
  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

Photo Gallery
Location: Menton, France
Date: 2017-04-20
Location: Keith Keppel's Garden in Salem, OR
Date: 2011-05-23
Location: Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Date: 2019-05-09
Tango Amigo (Blyth
Location: Menton, France
Date: 2018-04-29

Date: 2020-05-17
Uploaded by iciris
Location: Russia, Krasnodarskij Kraj
Date: 2014-05-17
Location: My Garden in Janesville, WI
Date: 2019-06-03
Location: Russia, Krasnodarskij Kraj
Date: 2017-05-15
Location: Las Cruces, NM
Date: 2020-04-24
TB Tango Amigo
Location: South Carolina
Early morning in the rain
Uploaded by iciris

Date: 2014-04-22
Uploaded by tveguy3
Location: Philo, California
Date: 2017-05-01
Location: Durham, NC
Date: 2016-05-07
Location: My garden
Date: 2019-05-30
In full sun.
Location: Mexico, Missouri 
Date: 2022-05-18
Location: Russia, Krasnodarskij Kraj
Date: 2016-05-09
Location: My garden
Date: 2019-06-04
First year bloom.
Location: My garden
Date: 2019-06-04
First year bloom.
Location: Catheys Valley CA
Photo courtesy of Superstition Iris Gardens, posted with permissi
Location: Australia
Date: 2021-10-28
Location: north central Texas
Date: 2013-04-26
Location: My garden
Date: 2019-05-30
First year bloom. In bright sun.
Location: My garden
Date: 2020-05-30
Location: Las Cruces, NM
Date: 2021-04-24
TB Iris Tango Amigo
Location: Russia, Krasnodarskij Kraj
Date: 2018-05-10
Uploaded by janwax
Location: Las Cruces, NM
Date: 2017-04-24
Iris Tango Amigo

Date: 2013-04-22
Photo courtesy of Napa Country Iris Garden
Location: Northern Germany
Date: 2023-06-01
Location: Keith Keppel's garden in Salem, OR
Date: 2011-05-23
Location: My garden in Bakersfield, CA
Date: 2013-04-21
Location: My garden in Bakersfield, CA
Date: 2013-04-21
Location: My garden in Bakersfield, CA
Date: 2013-04-21
Location: At Napa Iris Gardens
Date: 2014-04-26
Location: Keith Keppel's garden in Salem, OR
Date: 2011-05-21

Photo courtesy of Blue J Iris. Used with permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: My garden in Bakersfield, CA
Date: 2013-04-22
Location: My garden in Bakersfield, CA
Date: 2013-04-22

Date: 2017-11-10

Date: 2017-10-28
Comments:
  • Posted by Muddymitts (Western Kentucky - Zone 7a) on May 11, 2014 11:53 AM concerning plant:
    Give this beautiful Iris plenty of space -- it loves to increase! In the 18 months between the fall of 2012 when I planted one rhizome, and the spring of 2014 when it bloomed for the first time, it produced 14 increases and is blooming like mad!! Gorgeous Iris!!!

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