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Hybridizer: Barry Blyth
Year Of Registration: 2004
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2006
Seedling Number: K65-5
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 38 inches (96 cm)
Bloom Season: Mid Late
Flower Form: Bubble Ruffled
Bloom Color Classification: Tan
Violet
Flower Patterns: Blend
Bloom Color Description: Milky coffee, some soft violet flushing at midrib of standards and large violet outpouring below beards
Beard Color: Tangerine orange
Fragrance: Slight
Sweet

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: Mighty Cool X Stop Flirting
Child plants: 9 child plants

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Common names
  • Iris
  • Tall Bearded Iris

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Location: Schreiner's Gardens near Salem, OR
Date: 2015-05-14
Location: In my garden at Middletown, DE
Date: 2016-05-24
Location: Russia, Krasnodarskij Kraj
Date: 2014-05-17
Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
Date: 2021-06-02
Location: Russia, Krasnodarskij Kraj
Date: 2016-05-19
Location: my yard
Location: Schreiners Gardens
Date: 2012-06-04
Location: Menton, France
Date: 2018-05-13
Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
Date: 2021-05-22
Location: Russia, Krasnodarskij Kraj
Date: 2017-05-26
Location: Chino Valley Arizona
Date: 2022-05-25
Location: My Garden, Ontario, Canada
Date: 2019-06-27
This bloom has an extra fall.
Location: Chino Valley Arizona
Date: 2021-05-18
Location: Russia, Krasnodarskij Kraj
Date: 2016-05-19
Location: my yard
Location: Schreiners Gardens
Date: 2012-06-04
Location: Iowa
Date: 2013-06-08
Location: Cawston, BC
Date: 2022-10-27
From Hillside Irises
Location: Home
Date: 2016-05-30
Location: Russia, Krasnodarskij Kraj
Date: 2017-05-29
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Date: 201-05-06
Location: Schreiners Gardens
Date: 2012-06-02
Location: My Garden, Ontario, Canada
Date: 2019-06-27
This iris has a lovely violet/blue colour under the beards (extra
Location: Austin, Texas
Date: 2018-04-13
Location: Mid-America Gardens, Salem, Oregon
Date: 2016-05-05

Photo courtesy of Stout Gardens
Photo by mattsmom

Photo courtesy of Mid-America Garden
Location: Mid-America Gardens, Salem, Oregon
Date: 2016-05-05
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