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Hybridizer: Keith Keppel
Year Of Registration: 2002
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 2003
Seedling Number: 96-10B
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 38 inches (97 cm)
Bloom Season: Early Mid
Flower Form: Ruffled
Bloom Color Classification: Copper/Brown
Gold
Purple
Flower Patterns: Plicata
Bloom Color Description: Near solid dark blackish cyclamen purple standards, very faint golden buff ground toward base; cyclamen falls, golden capucine buff ground showing as blaze and distinct veining
Beard Color: Rusty orange, purple mid-layer, white base
Style Arm Color: Blended rose brown and slate purple
Fragrance: Slight
Sweet
Awards: Honorable Mention: 2005
Award of Merit: 2007
John C. Wister Medal: 2009
Dykes Memorial Medal: 2011

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: Tangled Web X Epicenter
Child plants: 70 child plants

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Common names
  • Iris
  • Tall Bearded Iris

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Location: In my garden at Fire Island, NY
Date: May 24, 2010
Location: Mount Enterprise, Texas
Date: 2024-04-14

Date: 2019-05-14
Location: Garland, TX
Date: 2020-03-29
Location: My garden, Ukraine, Zaporizhzhya region Zone: 6a 
Date: 2020-05-24
Location: Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Date: 2017-04-25
Photo by avmoran
Location: Russia, Krasnodarskij Kraj
Date: 2019-05-18
Location: northern Idaho
Date: 2016-05-19
Location: Las Cruces, NM
Date: 2022-04-17
TB Iris Drama Queen
Location: Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Date: 2015-04-29
Location: Russia, Krasnodarskij Kraj
Date: 2017-05-13
Location: Home
Date: 2016-05-24
Location: Russia, Krasnodarskij Kraj
Date: 2017-05-14
Location: Russia, Krasnodarskij Kraj
Date: 2019-05-19
Location: Las Cruces, NM
Date: 2017-04-14
Tall Bearded Iris Drama Queen
Location: Cisco, Tx 
Date: 2020-03-30
Location: Iowa
Location: My Garden in Fort Worth, TX
Date: 2019-05-05

Date: 2018-05-14
Location: Tamberg garden, Berlin, Germany
Date: 2022-05-28
Location: My Garden in Fort Worth, TX
Date: 2021-04-23
Photo by avmoran
Location: My Garden in Fort Worth, TX
Date: 2021-04-20
Location: Philo, California
Date: 2016-04-12
Location: Russia, Krasnodarskij Kraj
Location: my yard
Location: Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Date: 2012-05-07
Location: Cottonwood, CA
Date: 2022-04-18
Location: My Garden in Fort Worth, TX
Date: 2021-04-20
Location: In my garden, a new plant
Date: 2012-05-14

Date: 2012-05-16
Photo by tveguy3
Location: Garland, TX
Date: 2020-03-27
Location: Home
Date: 2014-05-16
Location: Bullard, TX
Date: 2020-04-27
Location: In my garden
Date: 2015-05-03
Location: Winterberry Iris Gardens
Date: 2012-05-11
evening light shows underlying hues of this dark dramatic iris
Location: Schreiners Gardens
Date: 2012-06-04
Location: God's Garden - Atwater CA
Date: May 2014
Location: Tamberg garden, Berlin, Germany
Date: 2022-05-28
Location: Randy Squires' garden in North Hills, CA
Date: April 17, 2012
Location: Randy Squires' garden in North Hills, CA
Date: April 17, 2012
Location: My garden, North Central Idaho
Date: 5-14-2016
Location: God's Garden - Atwater CA
Date: April 8, 2015

Photo courtesy of Blue J Iris Used with permission.
Photo by Moiris
Location: Sass Memorial Garden near Ashland, Nebraska
Date: 2012-05-04
Location: My garden in Alabaster, AL
Date: 2024-04-16
Location: My Garden in Fort Worth, TX
Date: 2019-05-05
Location: Catheys Valley California
Photo courtesy of Superstition Iris Gardens, posted with permissi
Photo by irisloverdee
Location: Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Date: 2010-05-5

Date: 2013-05-25
Winner at UIS show
Location: Yorkville, IL
Date: 2020-05-27

Date: 2013-04-29
Photo by MaryDurtschi
Location: Schreiner's Garden
Date: 2017-05-22
Full sun, 91 degrees F 32.7 degrees C
Location: In my garden
Date: 2012-05-14
Photo by MaryDurtschi
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