"Every color—except fire-engine red—can be found in bearded iris," Doris says ... seedlings from choking the surrounding soil. Seed formation also saps energy needed by the rhizomes, roots ...

This is the tall bearded iris or fleur-de-lis ... Its ornamental feature, however, is not its flowers but its vivid orange-red seeds which, clustered at more than 20 per pod, create quite a ...

A remaining Holy Grail for hybridizers is to breed a true red bearded iris. “There are probably nearly 100,000 named varieties of bearded irises,” says Horton. “They’re like poodles.

I have been assiduously deadheading – carefully snapping off the spent flowers so the seed pod behind the crumpled ... It was magical. The bearded iris gets its name from the central 'beard ...

MOST OF US, gardeners and nongardeners alike, carry memories of bearded iris (Iris germanica), an old-fashioned flower frequently found in long-established gardens, like that of your grandparents ...

A remaining Holy Grail for hybridizers is to breed a true red bearded iris. "There are probably nearly 100,000 named varieties of bearded irises," says Horton. "They're like poodles. They come in ...