One of the oldest and best-known perennials in the home landscape is the bearded iris, sometimes called a German iris or a flag. But the genus Iris contains almost 300 species, and many irises have ...

Iris is the largest genus of the family Iridaceae which has up to 300 species. Iris comes from the Greek word for a rainbow, due to the rainbow of bloom colors including blue, pink, purple, reddish, ...

Owing to climactic conditions here in the Inland Northwest and my admittedly lazy ways, perennials in my garden have to meet a long list of criteria. They have to be heat and cold tolerant, drought ...

Of the 200 species in the genus Iris, only a few flourish in our northern gardens. Iris have been classified in many ways over the last few centuries and the nomenclature and origin of some species ...

Critics of bearded irises say the flowers are too fleeting, their lives too short, that they bloom for a few brief weeks in spring, then are gone until the next season. Further, they maintain, the ...

Pat Norvell produced a Louisiana iris that her granddaughter wants to be her namesake. If Norvell were to register it, the name would be 'Kiley's Pick.' Pat Norvell Pat Norvell can name-drop with the ...

Siberian irises can be successfully grown in Colorado. They are hardier than either the German bearded or Japanese iris, both in withstanding severe climatic conditions and in withstanding the ...