Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Frederick Kerr
Year Of Registration: 1994
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 1994
Seedling Number: 87-12-02
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 39 inches (99 cm)
Bloom Season: Mid
Bloom Color Classification: Violet
Yellow
Flower Patterns: Bicolor
Bloom Color Description: Pastel dawn blue standards, blending to wide misty lemondrop yellow edge; dark ultraviolet blue falls, lavender edge tinted yellow, brown hafts
Beard Color: Orange, tipped blue
Fragrance: Slight

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: Dover Beach X Twist of Fate
Child plants: 2 child plants

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Common names
  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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Location: Cawston, BC
Date: 2022-10-27
From Hillside Irises

Date: 2020-06-02
Location: shounan Japan
Date: 9 May 2017 in the early morning.

Date: 2019-11-03

Date: 2020-06-02
Location: shounan Japan
Date: 9 May 2017
Location: shounan Japan
Date: 8 May 2017
It is a splendid hue.
Location: shounan Japan
Date: 8 May 2017
It is a splendid hue.
Location: Cisco, Tx 
Date: 2020-04-24

Date: 2017-11-01
Location: shounan Japan
Date: 2018 Apr 25

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