Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Marty Schafer/Jan Sacks
Year Of Registration: 2004
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2004
Seedling Number: S97-25-10
Classification: Siberian
Registered Height: 25 inches (64 cm)
Bloom Season: Mid
Bloom Color Classification: Light blue
Violet
Bloom Color Description: Red violet standards; intensely dark and bright red violet falls, straight purple to black veins on yellow signals
Style Arm Color: Pearly light blue, orangey buff tips at opening fading to blue
Fragrance: Slight
Sweet
Awards: Honorable Mention: 2007
Award of Merit: 2011

General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Ploidy: Diploid
Parentage: Echo the Wind X S92-56-13: (S89-5-1: (Forrest McCord x Isabelle) x Careless Sally)
Child plants: 2 child plants

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Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-10-18
"Iris sibirica 'Charming Billy', 2017, [Siberian Iris], EYE-riss
Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2022-05-01
view from above
Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2022-05-01
Location: z6a MA, my garden
Date: 2014-06-07
Oddball with 4 standards, falls and style arms.
Location: Mt. Pleasant Iris Farm
Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2022-05-01

Charming Billy
Location: z6a MA, my garden
Date: 2013-06-05
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2011-06-17

Photo courtesy of Joe Pye Weed's Garden
Location: z6a MA, my garden
Date: 2013-06-03
Front left. Upright foliage on young clump and more blue in bloom

Siberian Iris Gardens © Kathy Puckett, used with permission
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-10-18
"Iris sibirica 'Charming Billy', 2017, [Siberian Iris], EYE-riss
Uploaded by ge1836

Date: 2006-02-14
Photo courtesy of Joe Pye Weed's Garden

Photo by D Stewart SNOWPEAK IRIS
Location: z6a MA, my garden
Date: 2015-05-13
Location: Sun Zone 6a
Date: 2012-05-26
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