Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Keith Keppel
Year Of Registration: 2006
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2007
Seedling Number: 00-257F
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 42 inches (107 cm)
Bloom Season: Mid Late
Flower Form: Bubble Ruffled
Bloom Color Classification: Violet
Yellow
Flower Patterns: Bicolor
Bloom Color Description: Light yellow standards, base slightly darker; foxglove falls shading to buff and lavender blended edge and sulphine yellow shoulders
Beard Color: White, tipped deep chrome, lavender at end
Style Arm Color: Light yellow, pale lavender lip
Awards: Honorable Mention: 2009
Award of Merit: 2011

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: Lydia Safan-Swiastyn X Sea Power
Child plants: 10 child plants

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Common names
  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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Location: Home garden
Date: 2018-05-16
Photo by janielouy
Location: My garden, central NJ, Zone 7A
Date: 5/24/15
Iris Bollywood
Location: Central NJ
Date: Spring 2014
Iris Bollywood
Location: Keith Keppel's Garden
Date: 2015-05-14
Location: Cawston, BC
Date: 2022-10-26
From Hillside Irises
Location: Keppel garden
Date: 2012-06-02
Location: California
Date: 2014-05-15
Bollywood, newly opened, taken at 8 a.m.
Photo by TBMan
Location: Cisco, Tx 
Date: 2021-05-10
Location: Philo, California
Date: 2015-05-31
Location: Michigan-my garden
Date: Spring 2021

Date: 2017-11-16
Location: Mid America Gardens
Date: 2012-06-04

Bollywood

Photo courtesy of Iris Sisters Farm, used with permission

Photo courtesy of Iris Sisters Farm, used with permission
Photo by Misawa77
Photo by Misawa77
Location: Iowa
Date: 2012-05-12
Location: Schreiners Gardens
Date: 2012-06-04
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