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Hybridizer: Chet Tompkins
Year Of Registration: 1992
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 1992
Seedling Number: 87-35
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 36 inches (91 cm)
Bloom Season: Mid Late
Bloom Color Classification: Orchid
Wine
Flower Patterns: Bicolor
Bloom Color Description: Blend of clover and amaranth pink standards; deep red maroon falls, 1/4" picoteed amaranth pink edge
Beard Color: Shrimp red

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: reverse sibling to Heavenly Body X ((Dusky Dancer x Camelot Rose) x ((Kin-na-Zin x Camelot Rose) x (((((Cimbay x Latin Lover) x (Cimbay x Treasure Key)) x ((Cimbay x Latin Lover) x (Starburst x Cimbay))) x ((Easy Grace x San Leandro) x (((Bayberry Candle x Hilight) x Copper Capers) x (Bandolier x ((Orange Parade x Grand Teton) x Cosmopolitan)))) x Cimbay)))
Child plants: 2 child plants

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  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
Date: 2020-05-29
Location: in my garden, Switzerland
Date: 2019-06-04
Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
Date: 2023-05-27
Location: Garland (Dallas), TX
Date: 2015-04-21
Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
Date: 2022-05-29
Location: Tennessee 
Date: 2021-05-07
Armageddon
Location: Wisconsin zone 5a
Date: 2013-06-14
Location: Zone7b East Tenn
Location: Carleton Place, Ontario Canada
Date: 2018-06-12
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Location: my front yard
Date: 2013-05-29
Location: South Carolina
Date: 2018-05-02

Date: 2016-05-25
Location: Garland (Dallas), TX
Date: 2015-04-21
Location: my front yard
Date: 2014-05-25
Location: Garland (Dallas), TX
Date: 2015-04-21
Location: Cisco, Tx 
Date: 2020-04-22
Location: Hidden Hills CA
Date: 2013-04-19
ffo bud

Photo courtesy of Blue J Iris Used with permission.
Location: Hidden Hills CA
Date: 2013-04-20
ffo, tepal removed to show detail
Location: Kansas City, MO
Date: 2016-05-13
Location: Hidden Hills CA
Date: 2013-04-24

Photo courtesy of Williamson Farm Flowers
Location: East Tennessee
Date: 2018-05-03
Location: Hidden Hills CA
Date: 2013-04-20
ffo -the falls are a bit more red-violet and the standards more p

Photo Courtesy of Busse Gardens. Used with permission.
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