Gardeners who appreciate blooms of many colors are invited to become dazzled at the 2017 Iris Show, convened by the Monterey Bay Iris Society, the local chapter of the American Iris Society. The ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... There are almost as many reasons to love bearded irises as there are colors of these basically bulletproof plants. They’re drought-tolerant. They cope in ...

It's a magical time when bearded iris flowers unfurl their pencil-slim buds to reveal a kaleidoscope of color in spring. Once commonly called flags, these perennials flourish in USDA Zones 3-9, where ...

These statuesque beauties, resilient to drought, come in all colors and scents, even vanilla and root beer. This spring, I have to admit, I went a little berserk about bearded iris. The combination of ...

You see the leaves pushing up through the soil in early spring. Later in spring these fluffy, tissue-paper beauties will be out in full force. And with the reblooming hybrids, such as there's a second ...

Iris got its name from the Greek word for rainbow because this plant comes in all colors. There are thousands of varieties of bearded iris alone in every shade except true red, true black and perhaps ...

Dutch iris? Bearded iris? Japanese iris? Native iris? I have some beautiful iris blooming under my oak tree. I didn’t plant them. I probably wouldn’t have planted them in my mostly native garden. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...