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Hybridizer: Jim Hedgecock
Year Of Registration: 1993
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 1994
Seedling Number: 84-1-Q
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 40 inches (103 cm)
Bloom Season: Mid
Flower Form: Ruffled
Bloom Color Classification: Blue
Purple
Wine
Flower Patterns: Blend
Bloom Color Description: Dark purple standards; falls dark maroon at hafts, dark electric blue ray patterns extending to dark maroon edge
Beard Color: Burnt gold, 1" blue horn
Space Age Beard Appendages: Horns
Fragrance: Slight
Sweet

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: Sky Hooks X Soul Music
Child plants: 30 child plants

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  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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Date: 2023-05-24
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Date: 2018-04-30
Location: Maryland
Date: 2019-05-04
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Date: 2019-04-29
Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
Date: 2023-05-27

Date: 2013-04-22
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Location: Las Cruces, NM
Date: 2017-04-28
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Date: 2012-04-22

Date: 2012-04-22
Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
Date: 2023-05-27
Location: Long Island, NY
Date: 2022-05-30
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Date: 2017-04-27
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Date: 2012-04-22
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Date: 2016-06-15
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Date: 2017-05-07
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Location: Long Island, NY
Date: 2022-06-04
Location: my zone 5 garden
Date: 2017-06-20
I can't believe I have iris and daylilies blooming at the same ti
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Date: 2012-04-25
Location: God's Garden - Atwater CA
Date: April 2014
Location: Long Island, NY
Date: 2022-06-04
Location: in my garden
Date: 2014-04-19
Location: God's Garden - Atwater CA
Date: April 21, 2015

Date: 2012-04-25

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Location: in my garden
Date: 2014-04-21
Location: in my garden
Date: 2014-04-21

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