Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Marky Smith
Year Of Registration: 1999
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2001
Seedling Number: 95-27W
Classification: Intermediate Bearded (IB)
Registered Height: 27 inches (69 cm)
Bloom Season: Early Mid
Flower Form: Ruffled
Bloom Color Classification: Gold
Violet
Wine
Flower Patterns: Luminata
Bloom Color Description: Smoked gold standards; falls have greyed gold rim and veins, dark red violet overlay, hafts gold to smoked salmon around beard
Beard Color: Greyed orange at end, vermilion in throat
Style Arm Color: Cream rib, gold crests
Fragrance: Pronounced
Sweet
Awards: Honorable Mention: 2003
Award of Merit: 2005
Hans and Jacob Sass Medal: 2007
Fred and Barbara Walther Cup: HM 2003

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 8b
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Underground structures: Rhizome
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Tetraploid
Parentage: Flights of Fancy X Brash
Child plants: 11 child plants

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Common names
  • Iris
  • Intermediate Bearded Iris

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Date: 2020-05-19
Location: Durham, Arkansas
Date: 2022-04-27
Location: My Garden, Ontario, Canada
Date: 2021-05-30
Gorgeous intermediate bearded iris.
Location: Durham, Arkansas
Date: 2022-04-27
Location: My garden
Location: My garden
Uploaded by Ladylovingdove
Uploaded by Ladylovingdove

Date: 2012-04-09
Location: From my collection. Poland.
Date: 2022-05-28
Uploaded by iciris
Location: my front yard
Date: 2013-05-19
Uploaded by avmoran

Date: 2012-04-09
Location: From my collection. Poland.
Date: 2022-05-29
Location: Kaunas, Lithuania, EU
Date: 2013-02-11
Location: Hanover PA
Date: 04-27-2012

Date: Jun 14, 2009 6:08 AM
Location: My Garden, Ontario, Canada
Date: 2017-06-23
Location: My Garden, Ontario, Canada
Date: 2017-06-23
Location: In my Northern California garden
Date: 2013-04-13
Location: Kaunas, Lithuania, EU
Date: 2013-02-11
Uploaded by caitlinsgarden
Uploaded by Betja
Location: East Tennessee
Date: 2017-04-22
Location: my front yard
Date: 2013-05-19
Location: my front yard
Date: 2013-05-19
Location: my front yard
Date: 2013-05-19
Location: My garden in Bakersfield, CA
Date: April 4, 2012

Photo courtesy of Blue J Iris Used with permission.

Date: 2012-05-12
At a UIS show
Location: Wilhoit, AZ
Date: 2023
Location: In my garden. Poland.
Location: In my garden. Poland.
Location: my front yard
Date: 2013-05-19
Location: southern KY
Date: 2019-04-11
Location: Hanover PA
Date: 04-27-2012
Uploaded by Betja
Location: Sass Memorial Garden near Ashland, Nebraska
Date: 2013-05-23
Location: my front yard
Date: 2013-05-19
Location: my back yard
Date: 2013-05-19
Uploaded by Betja
Location: my back yard
Date: 2013-05-19
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