Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Keith Keppel
Year Of Registration: 2020
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2021
Seedling Number: 11-59J
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 40 inches (102 cm)
Bloom Season: Early
Early Mid
Mid
Mid Late
Late
Flower Form: Bubble Ruffled
Bloom Color Classification: Violet
Bloom Color Description: Opera mauve standards blending and lightening to cream edge; amaranth to aconite violet falls, faint paler veining, inconspicuous narrow cream edge, cream area around beards
Beard Color: White, tipped chinese orange to fire red, yellow at end
Style Arm Color: Deep cream, pink cast

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: Arrivederci X 05-78A: (Montmartre x Lip Service)
Child plants: one child plant

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Common names
  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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Location: My Garden in Janesville, WI
Date: 2022-06-10
Location: Keith Keppel's garden
Date: 2015-05-13
Location: In my garden, Middletown, Delaware
Date: 2022-05-25
Location: In my garden, Middletown, Delaware
Date: 2022-05-25

Date: 2017-06-14

Date: 2017-06-14

Date: 2017-05-27

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