Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Ben Hager
Year Of Registration: 1989
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 1990
Seedling Number: RE4889
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 32 inches (81 cm)
Bloom Season: Early Mid
Rebloom
Bloom Color Classification: Violet
White
Flower Patterns: Plicata
Bloom Color Description: White, narrow edge stitched lavender violet, heavily veined hafts
Beard Color: Pale blue white

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: T3711Pc: (Space Odyssey x Socialite) X Earl of Essex

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Common names
  • Iris
  • Tall Bearded Iris

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Location: Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Date: 2016-10-07
Location: Courtyard entrance full sun - zone 7
Date: 2021-05-14
Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
Date: 2022-05-31
Location: Zone 7, full sun.
Date: 2018-10-17
Just planted 9/13/18 so this bud is a big surprise.
Location: Work area.  From Schreiner's.
Date: 2018-09-13
Location: full sun - zone 7
Date: 2021-05-17
Location: Mexico, Missouri 
Date: 2022-05-11
Location: Yorkville, IL
Date: 2020-05-28
Location: Salem, OR
Date: 2021-05-12
Location: My garden in southeast Nebraska
Date: 2008-05-20
Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
Date: 2021-05-23
Location: Yorkville, IL
Date: 2020-05-26

Hemstitched 1989
Location: My garden in southeast Nebraska
Date: 2012-04-28

Photo courtesy of Blue J Iris Used with permission.
Location: Garden gate display gardens Zone 5 Indiana
Date: 2011-05-02
close-up of edge color
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Comments:
  • Posted by KentPfeiffer (Southeast Nebraska - Zone 5b) on Mar 22, 2012 10:04 PM concerning plant:
    Known to rebloom, but has never done so here (zone 5b)
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rhizome by grannysgarden Sep 22, 2018 9:45 AM 13

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