Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Michael Sutton
Year Of Registration: 2016
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2017
Seedling Number: A-6417-C
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 40 inches (102 cm)
Bloom Season: Early
Early Mid
Mid
Mid Late
Late
Flower Form: Ruffled
Bloom Color Description: Barium yellow standards; wisteria blue falls, lilac purple shoulders, white around beards and in throat, double band at edge with 1/4" inner band of imperial purple and 1/4" outer band of chrome yellow
Beard Color: White
Style Arm Color: Barium yellow
Fragrance: Slight
Musky
Awards: Honorable Mention: 2022

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: All Smiles X 640: (Cold Fusion x Definition)
Child plants: one child plant

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Common names
  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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Uploaded by Dachsylady86
Location: Zone 7 Knoxville
Date: 2018-04-29
Location: Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Date: 2020-05-07
Into the Wild (Sutton '17)
Location: United Kingdom 
Date: 12/09/2021
Lynn Owen

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