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 ...

Irises are among the easiest flowers to propagate, and growers everywhere have sought to put their own spin on them, offering an array of elaborate blooms in virtually every color of the rainbow.

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 ...

Irises are among the easiest flowers to propagate, and growers everywhere have sought to put their own spin on them, offering an array of elaborate blooms in virtually every color of the rainbow.

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 ...

If you like your flowers plain and simple, the bearded iris is not for you. It is hard to say which aspect of the iris is the most ornate: its range and mixes of colors, its frills, its size or its ...

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 ...

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 ...

This season, I’ll clean the beds and prune, then plant fragrant lilies and bearded irises amongst the roses. At the fabled English estate Sissinghurst at Kent, Vita Sackville-West loved the look of ...