What should you do with your bearded Iris Germanic in the spring to get them ready for their coming floral display? Well that's exactly what I answer in this video. I show you exactly what to do to ...

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, ...

With so many gorgeous varieties of bearded iris available, it's hard to know where to begin. Enter professional gardener Peg ...

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 ...

You don’t have to be a professional horticulturist to propagate an almost unlimited number of your favorite herbaceous perennials. Perhaps you’ve treated yourself to one of the newer, dramatic and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some folks call them flag flower, but most refer to them as iris. They are named for the Greek word for rainbows. The first iris arrived in gardens in 1913. Many of the bearded varieties originated in ...