Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Keith Keppel
Year Of Registration: 2003
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2004
Seedling Number: 96-35D
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 35 inches (89 cm)
Bloom Season: Mid
Flower Form: Bubble Ruffled
Bloom Color Classification: Light blue
Violet
Flower Patterns: Dark Top
Bloom Color Description: Vervain standards, base deeper violet; silvery pale blue falls
Beard Color: Melon pink with white base, blue white at end
Style Arm Color: Vervain
Fragrance: Slight
Sweet
Awards: Honorable Mention: 2006
Award of Merit: 2008

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: Gatty Z-8-1: (Coming Up Roses x X63-8: T-1-2: ((Nefertiti x Playgirl) x Presence) x Rare Occasion) X Fogbound
Child plants: 8 child plants

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Date: 2019-05-18

Date: 2019-05-20
Location: New Zealand

Date: 2018-05-18
Uploaded by avmoran
Uploaded by Valery33
Location: North Carolina
Date: 2023-05-09
Adoregon
Location: Home
Date: 2016-06-07
Location: My Garden in Fort Worth, TX
Date: 2024-05-01
Location: My Garden in Fort Worth, TX
Date: 2024-05-01
Location: Masterton New Zealand
Date: 2019-11-12
All-focus
Location: Chailey Iris Garden, East Sussex, UK.
Date: 2022-06-11
Location: Iowa
Date: 2012-05-20
Location: New Zealand
additional bonus this year - 4 falls!
Location: Iowa
Date: 2012-05-20
Location: north bed
Date: 2020-05-30
first blooming for me

Adoregon
Uploaded by mattsmom
Location: Cawston, BC
Date: 2023-05-26
From Hillside Irises
Location: Home
Date: 2016-06-06
Location: My Garden in Fort Worth, TX
Date: 2024-05-01
Location: My Garden in Fort Worth, TX
Date: 2024-05-01
Location: My Garden in Fort Worth, TX
Date: 2024-05-01
Location: Missouri
Date: 2010-05-27

Date: 2011-11-28
Location: Poilly-Lez-Gien France
"Photo courtesy of Cayeux Iris. Used with permission."
Uploaded by mattsmom
Location: Home
Date: 2016-06-08
Location: Home
Date: 2016-06-04
Location: north bed
Date: 2020-05-30
first blooming for me

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