Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Richard Tasco
Year Of Registration: 2000
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2001
Seedling Number: 93-53-08
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 32 inches (81 cm)
Bloom Season: Early Mid
Bloom Color Classification: Magenta
Pink
Flower Patterns: Plicata
Bloom Color Description: Buff pink standards, faintly flushed and dotted light magenta; creamy pink falls, heavily striated and dotted magenta, more solid around edge
Beard Color: Rusty tangerine, base white
Style Arm Color: Buff pink flushed light magenta
Fragrance: Sweet
Awards: Honorable Mention: 2004

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
Fragrant
Underground structures: Rhizome
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Ploidy: Tetraploid
Parentage: 91-35: (Secret Melody x Faux Pas) X (Secret Melody x Faux Pas)

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Common names
  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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Location: Elk Grove, CA
Date: 4/19/17
Location: Lancaster, CA
Date: Spring 2017
Location: Lancaster, CA
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Location: Catheys Valley California
Photo courtesy of Superstition Iris Gardens, posted with permissi

Photo courtesy of Blue J Iris Used with permission.

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