Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Edward Essig
Year Of Registration: 1930
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 1932
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Bloom Season: Mid
Bloom Color Classification: Violet
Flower Patterns: Self
Awards: Honorable Mention: 1933
Dykes Memorial Medal: 1935

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
Parentage: Souv. de Mme. Gaudichau X Santa Barbara
Child plants: 43 child plants

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Uploaded by Neela
Location: Whitesboro, TX
Date: 2017-05-23
Location: Cisco, Tx 
Date: 2020-04-06
Location: Hobart, Tasmania
Date: 2017-10-21
Location: California
Date: May 2022
Not quite this blue in reality.  Fades more toward lavender/purpl
Location: Schreiner's Gardens near Salem, OR
Date: 2015-05-14
Location: rose line bed
Date: 2019-05-23
first blooming for me
Uploaded by Henhouse
Location: Superstition Gardens - Cathey's Valley CA
Date: 2017-05-07

Photo courtesy of Iris City Gardens

Date: c. 1935
illustration from the 1935 Bulletin of the American Iris Society
Location: Wisconsin
Date: Spring 2013
www.damongardens.com
Location: Schreiner's Gardens near Salem, OR
Date: 2015-05-14
Location: Sass Memorial Iris Garden near Ashland, NE
Date: 2015-05-21
Location: California
Date: May 2022
Very tall. About 48 inches.
Uploaded by Lbsmitty
Location: Hobart, Tasmania
Date: 2019-10-17

Date: c. 1940
photo from the 1940 catalog, Cooley's Gardens, Silverton, Oregon
Location: Catheys Valley CA
Photo courtesy of Superstition Iris Gardens, posted with permissi

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