Divide irises when they are dormant in midsummer. After blooming in spring, plants slowly move into a dormant period that ...

WGN’s “Plant Daddy” Tim Joyce is back to share some weekend gardening tips, including deadheading irises, getting rid of lily ...

Falling in love with these tall, ruffled blooms led India Hurst to experiment with a programme of hybridisation. The results will blow your mind ...

John Lortz of Upper Sandusky has cultivated an extensive iris garden over the past three years. The garden features a variety of tall bearded irises, obtained through trades and borrowing, along ...

“The show moves over to the perennial garden where we have Peonies blooming right now, as well as Baptisia, Bearded Iris, Siberian Iris,” said Jonathan Milbrodt, the Lead Horticulturist at ...

Ask the Gardener: Irises are simply divine This versatile group of perennials thrives in many conditions, and bears deep symbolism and a connection with humans.

However, I want to highlight the range of stately garden irises this month that rise up in the border like wonderful exclamation marks! Iris germanica (bearded irises) are the stars of the show.

This Wichita Falls man's one-acre garden in the middle of town drew folks from miles around. His legacy lives on in a local garden show coming up.

Mike Wolcott’s musings on the bearded irises from his old family homestead got me wondering more about their history in the US. “Bearded” irises are native to Europe and East Asia, but they ...

Irises put on a show in Southern gardens in a rainbow of colors. Learn when different types of irises—Dwarf, Dutch, and Bearded—bloom and how to care for irises.

However, many bearded iris varieties need freezing winters to abundantly flower in the spring and fall, which is why SoCal gardeners can be disappointed unless they seek out low-chill varieties.