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 ...

Iris germanica, commonly called German or bearded iris, is a flamboyant, late-spring bloomer with glamorous flowers made up of parts with names such as standards, falls and beards. Thousands of ...

Now is the time to take care of your German irises if you want beautiful blooms next year. If it has been three or more years since you've dug and re-set your irises and flowering has decreased, ...

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 ...

Pat Norvell can name-drop with the best of them: Marie Caillet, Ralph and Muriel Pinkus, Neil Sperry. Dedicated local gardeners recognize the names of the woman who popularized Louisiana irises, the ...

Q: I have a garden of German bearded irises of all colors, and I try every year to add new ones. But this year and last year have been disasters. I’m finding the rhizomes in the garden to be squishy ...

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 ...