Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: E.B. Anderson
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 1958
Classification: Reticulata
Bloom Color Classification: Light blue
Yellow
Fragrance: Pronounced
Awards: Other: Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticulture Society

General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Dry Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Leaves: Spring ephemeral
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Time: Late winter or early spring
Underground structures: Bulb
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Drought tolerant
Propagation: Other methods: Bulbs
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
Parentage: I. winogradowii X I. histrioides 'Major'

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Common names
  • Reticulated Iris
  • Iris

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Location: Western Washington
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2020-03-16
Reticulated Iris (Iris 'Katharine Hodgkin') are flowering in mid
Location: Nora's Garden - Castlegar, B.C. 
Date: 2017-04-11
 6:02 pm. An elegant blossom.
Location: My garden, Skåne, Sweden
Date: March 2016
Location: My garden, Skåne, Sweden
Date: March 2016
Location: my garden, Poland
Date: 2018-04-02
Location: My Garden of Good and Evil
Date: 2023-02-21
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2019-02-10
Location: My Garden, Utah
Date: 2015-03-11
Location: Belarus
Date: 2020-03-19
Spring in our garden
Location: Western Washington
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2019-02-10
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2015-04-01
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2019-02-10
Location: From my garden. Poland.
Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2012-03-19
Location: Nora's Garden - Castlegar, B.C.
Date: 2020-04-03
- Spring and Winter, 1 hour and 40 minutes apart. (See previous p
Location: My garden
Date: 2017-03-26
Location: z6a MA, my garden
Date: 2013-04-04
Definitely increase over last year.
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2020-03-20
Reticulated Iris (Iris 'Katharine Hodgkin')
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2020-03-20
Reticulated Iris (Iris 'Katharine Hodgkin')
Location: Nora's Garden - Castlegar, B.C.
Date: 2020-04-03
- One hour and 40 minutes later, a snowstorm covers these spring

photo credit: Wouter Hagens
Location: Hortus Camera Lapidea
Date: 2023-02-25
Location: Hortus Camera Lapidea
Date: 2023-02-25
Location: My garden
Date: 2017-03-26

Date: 2009-01-29
Photo courtesy of: Ghislain118 http://www.fleurs-des-montagnes.ne
Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2012-03-19
Location: My Garden, Utah
Date: 2014-03-09
Location: My Garden, Utah
Date: 2014-03-09
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2011-02-16
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2011-02-17
Location: My Garden, z6a MA
Date: 2012-03-18
1st year
Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2012-10-23
Location: In my garden. Poland.
Location: Skowhegan, Maine
Date: 2007-04-22
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2011-02-14
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2011-02-14

photo credit: Ghislain118
Location: Part sun Zone 6
Date: 2012-03-13

Date: 2009-01-29
Photo courtesy of: Ghislain118 http://www.fleurs-des-montagnes.ne
Location: z6a MA, my garden
Date: 2015-05-10
Leaves 12 to 16 inches tall
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2013-01-07
Location: z6a MA, My Garden
Date: 2012-03-18
Very pale. Hardly visible from distance.
Location: Part sun Zone 6
Date: 2012-03-13
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