Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: E. Watkins
Year Of Registration: 1952
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 1956
Seedling Number: 50-32A
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 41 inches (104 cm)
Bloom Season: Mid
Bloom Color Classification: Light blue
Flower Patterns: Self
Bloom Color Description: Powder blue
Awards: Honorable Mention: 1956
Award of Merit: 1958
Dykes Memorial Medal: 1961

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: Jane Phillips X Blue Rhythm
Child plants: 47 child plants

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Location: Cisco, Tx 
Date: 2021-04-21
Location: Schreiner's Gardens near Salem, OR
Date: 2015-05-14
Location: Schreiner's Iris Garden, Salem, OR.
Date: 2015-05-18
Location: Botanical Garden, Faculty of Scence, Zagreb, Croatia
Date: 2021-05-22
Iris BE 'Eleanor's Pride', the "multicolour clump" of buds and fl
Location: Sass Memorial Iris Garden near Ashland, NE
Date: 2015-05-21
Location: Botanical Garden, Faculty of Scence, Zagreb, Croatia
Date: 2021-05-20
Iris BE 'Eleanor's Pride', the "multicolour clump" of buds and fl
Location: Sass Memorial Garden near Ashland, Nebraska
Date: 2012-05-04
Location: My garden in southeast Nebraska
Date: 2010-05-17
Location: Botanical Garden, Faculty of Scence, Zagreb, Croatia
Date: May 12, 2020
Iris BE 'Eleanor's Pride'
Location: Sass Memorial Garden near Ashland, Nebraska
Date: 2010-05-17

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