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Hybridizer: Frederick Kerr
Year Of Registration: 2011
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2012
Seedling Number: 04-037A
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 44 inches (112 cm)
Bloom Season: Mid
Flower Form: Bubble Ruffled
Bloom Color Classification: Orange
Purple
Flower Patterns: Line and Speckles
Bloom Color Description: Orange standards; orange falls overlaid magnolia purple, heavily veined imperial purple except for 1/2" orange edge
Beard Color: Indian orange
Style Arm Color: Orange
Fragrance: Slight
Sweet
Awards: Honorable Mention: 2014
Award of Merit: 2016

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
Fragrant
Underground structures: Rhizome
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Tetraploid
Parentage: Kisses Like Wine X Decadence
Child plants: one child plant

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Common names
  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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Location: My garden,  Zaporizhzhya region Zone: 6a 
Date: 2023-05-21
Location: My garden, Ukraine, Zaporizhzhya region Zone: 6a 
Date: 2022-05-24

Date: 2019-05-16
Location: Michigan-my garden
Date: June 2,2022
Location: Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Date: 2017-04-26

Date: 2019-05-19
Location: My garden
Date: 2019-05-31
First year plant.
Location: Iowa
Date: 2013-05-28
Location: My garden
Date: 2019-05-30
First year bloom.
Location: Iowa
Date: 2013-06-01
Location: Home
Location: Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Date: 2019-05-08
Jean Clay Plank (Kerr
Location: Schreiner's Gardens near Salem, OR
Date: 2015-05-14
Location: Cisco, Tx 
Date: 2021-04-20
Location: Iowa
Date: 2013-06-10
Location: Iowa
Date: 2013-05-28
Location: Michigan-my garden
Date: 2018-06-01
Location: Michigan-my garden
Date: 2018-06-01
Location: Mt. Pleasant Iris Farm
Date: 2015-05-21

Photo courtesy of Stout Gardens

Photo courtesy of Fred Kerr's Rainbow Acres
Location: Mid-America Gardens, Salem, Oregon
Date: 2016-05-05
Photo by coboro
Location: In a public garden
Date: 2013-05-04
Discussion Threads about this plant
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Angel and Babe by Rainbow Dec 25, 2015 1:59 AM 0
Jeanne Clay Plank and Teasing Tiger by lilpod13 May 13, 2017 9:47 PM 2

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