Irises are beautiful flowers with incredible diversity! With more than 70,000 registered varieties, these striking perennials can be planted across almost the entire U.S., except some extremely hot ...

This year the National Garden Bureau is promoting iris as their bulb of the year. Irises are among the easiest of perennials to grow from bulbs, roots or rhizomes. The genus includes some 250 to 300 ...

Beardless Louisiana Iris – Black Gamecock – when most people think of iris, they think of the bearded iris. But there are many other iris species, from beardless to woodland and short-season spring ...

Dennis: A chance encounter way back in 1920 eventually led to the Willamette Valley becoming home to one of the top commercial growers in the U.S. of the plant sometimes referred to as “the poor man’s ...

We’re now at the peak bloom period of the highly regarded garden plant, the iris. For the Monterey Bay area, the popular tall-bearded irises typically reach their peak blooms from the end of April to ...

Recent On Gardening columns have presented the most popular groups of garden plants. I first highlighted four groups, but I now count five: California natives, dahlias, irises, roses and succulents.