Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Haunted Heart') in the Irises Database

Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer:	Keith Keppel
Year Of Registration:	2009
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry):	2010
Seedling Number:	04-133C
Classification:	Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height:	36 inches (91 cm)
Bloom Season:	Mid
Flower Form:	Bubble Ruffled Laced
Bloom Color Classification:	Silver/Grey
Flower Patterns:	Blend
Bloom Color Description:	Pale pinkish grey white standards; pinkish lavender grey white falls heavily overlaid heliotrope grey to lobelia violet, fine lining and texture veining
Beard Color:	Light shrimp pink, light blue at end
Style Arm Color:	Pale pinkish grey-white, lavender lip
Awards:	Honorable Mention: 2012 Award of Merit: 2014 John C. Wister Medal: 2016 Dykes Memorial Medal: 2018

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:	Blyth N48-X: (Royal Sterling x Keppel 99-42Y: (Last Laugh x 95-49B: (Electrique x Romantic Evening))) X Blyth N213: (Hello It's Me x Reckless in Denim)
Child plants:	158 child plants

Common names

Tall Bearded Iris
Iris

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Location: my front yard
Date: 2024-05-19

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Location: Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Date: 2016-04-29
Haunted Heart (Keppel '10)

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Location: Russia, Krasnodarskij Kraj
Date: 2018-05-15

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Location: Greenhouse grown in a pot, photographed in the garden.
Date: May 18, 2019

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Location: my garden, Puget Sound area, WA
Date: 2019-05-17
in the rain and wind

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Location: Philo, California
Date: 2015-05-08

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Location: My garden in southeast Nebraska
Date: 2014-05-20

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Location: My garden in southeast Nebraska
Date: 2014-05-14

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Location: My garden, Watkins Glen, NY
Date: May 2022
In the light of the rising sun

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Location: Michigan-my garden
Date: June 10, 2017

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Location: Bochnia, Poland
Date: 2015-06-03

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Location: My garden, Watkins Glen, NY
Date: 5-23-23

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Location: East facing garden zone 6a
Date: May 2019
Indoor picture due to expected weather

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Location: new albany, in
Date: 2025-05-06

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Location: Russia, Krasnodar region, Novokubansk
Date: 2021-05-19

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Location: My garden near Houghton Lake, MI
Date: 2020-06-18

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Location: My Garden
Date: 2023-05-07
Haunted Heart iris

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Location: shounan Japan
Date: 2019/5/12
So fantastic!

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Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
It's amazing how the bloom "greyed" out over night. Such personal

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Location: Russia, Krasnodar region, Novokubansk
Date: 2020-05-20

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Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
Date: 2023-05-26

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Location: My garden
Date: 2019-05-31
Earlier blooms have more color.

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Location: Philo, California
Date: 2016-05-08

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Location: Washington 8b
Date: 2018-05-16

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Location: Keith Keppel's garden in Salem, OR
Date: 2011-05-23

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Location: Will Rogers Park
Date: 2016-04-08
Haunted heart

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Location: Las Cruces, NM
Date: 2017-04-23
Tall Bearded Iris Haunted Heart

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Location: My garden in southeast Nebraska
Date: 2014-05-13

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Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
I do not alter the color, or saturation, in my photos.

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Location: My Garden, Essex, UK.
Date: 2024-05-11

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Location: My garden in Western Minnesota
Date: 2024-06-02

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Location: My garden in Western Minnesota
Date: 2024-06-04

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Location: Zone 7 Knoxville
Date: 2017-04-26

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Location: My garden
Date: 2019-06-01
First year bloom, in full sun.

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Location: My garden
Date: 2019-06-01
First year bloom. In bright sun.

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Location: My garden
Date: 2019-06-02
What a beauty!

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Location: Keith Keppel's garden in Salem, OR
Date: 2013-05-23

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Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL

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Location: Nocona,Texas zn.7 My gardens
Date: Spring 2019
A slow grower so far..but WOW, gorgeous!

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Location: Wichita, Kansas, USA
Date: 2021-05-19

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Location: Wichita, Kansas, USA
Date: 2021-05-20

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Location: My garden in southeast Nebraska
Date: 2014-05-21

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Location: My garden in southeast Nebraska
Date: 2014-05-25

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Location: My garden in Bakersfield, CA
Date: April 25, 2012

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Location: Michigan-my garden
Date: June 5, 2017

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Location: my front yard
Date: 2024-05-20

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Location: Michigan-my garden
Date: 2024-05-23

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Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
Date: 2021-05-22
Behind "Haunted Heart" is Coffee Trader, and Berry Scary

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Location: Australia
Date: 2022-11-09
Haunted Heart

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Location: Taken at a local iris show
Date: 2013-05-04

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Location: Radford Virginia
Date: 2020-05-24
FFO on a new plant, 5/24/2020. I am really quite taken with the s

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Location: Nocona,Texas zn.7 My gardens
Date: April 22, 2020

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Location: Willamette Valley Oregon
Date: 2014-05-24

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Location: My garden
Date: 2021-05-22
Close up

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Location: my front yard
Date: 2024-05-22

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Location: Oklahoma City, OK
Date: 2025-05-06

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Location: Pleasant Grove, Utah
Date: 2012-05-23
In my garden

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Location: Tom Bruce's Carolina Daylilies
Date: 2018-04-21

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Location: Catheys Valley CA
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Location: Mid-America Gardens, Salem, Oregon
Date: 2016-05-05

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Comments:

Posted by KentPfeiffer (Southeast Nebraska - Zone 5b) on Mar 22, 2012 9:56 PM concerning plant:

One of the most beautiful irises I've ever seen. Never thought I would say that about an iris that is basically grey.

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Posted by cinvasko (VA - Zone 6b) on May 11, 2023 11:11 AM concerning plant:

I really liked Haunted Heart, and its subtle colors were ever-changing here. However I've tried it twice in two different locations and it always under-performed for me. Never got remotely close to the listed height, bloomed low, and after two years both plants (planted in different years = different weather conditions and from different vendors) died off.

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Posted by KentPfeiffer (Southeast Nebraska - Zone 5b) on Jan 25, 2015 12:58 PM concerning plant:

Sibling to Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Ghost Writer')

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Posted by avmoran (Pylesville, MD Zone 6B) on May 21, 2011 9:05 PM concerning plant:

First Bloom, 1st Year and it won first place. Had I planted it in the ground and it had the bloom size, it might have won queen. Love it.

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Plant Events from our members
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Australis	On December 5, 2023	Transplanted Dug up incl. root system and relocated to a different spot in the garden.
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Australis	On January 6, 2023	Transplanted Planted in the front garden bed.
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Tall Bearded Iris (Iris 'Haunted Heart')