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Hybridizer: Keith Keppel
Year Of Registration: 2006
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2007
Seedling Number: 99-139E
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 45 inches (114 cm)
Bloom Season: Early Mid
Mid Late
Flower Form: Bubble Ruffled
Bloom Color Classification: Purple
Flower Patterns: Bitone
Bloom Color Description: Huckleberry standards undertoned imperial purple toward center; dark prune to fluorite violet falls, blackish sheen on falls
Beard Color: White, tipped bronze brown, vatican purple at end
Style Arm Color: Imperial purple
Awards: Honorable Mention: 2009

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: 95-50A: (Smart Move x Romantic Evening) X Diabolique
Child plants: 7 child plants

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Common names
  • Iris
  • Tall Bearded Iris

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Location: My garden, Watkins Glen, NY
Date: 6.11.23
Location: Fairfield, CT, USA
Date: 2022-05-26
'Royal Majesty' Iris
Location: Iowa
Date: 2013-06-09
Location: Schreiner's Gardens near Salem, OR
Date: 2015-05-14
Location: Cisco, Tx 
Date: 2020-04-24
Location: Schreiner's Gardens near Salem, OR
Date: 2015-05-14
Location: My garden in southeast Nebraska
Date: 2012-05-15

Royal Majesty

Date: 2013-05-22
Location: Iowa
Date: 2012-05-11
Location: Schreiner's Gardens near Salem, OR
Date: 2015-05-14
Location: My garden in southeast Nebraska
Date: 2012-05-10

Photo courtesy of Iris Sisters Farm, used with permission
Location: Whitesboro, TX
Image courtesy of The Shady Spot Iris. All rights reserved.

Date: 2013-05-22

Date: 2013-05-22
Location: Schreiners Gardens
Date: 2012-06-04

Photo courtesy of Stout Gardens
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