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All About Irises


All About Iris - Longfield Gardens

Iris are among the world's most beloved and easy to identify flowers. They can be found growing wild on almost every continent.

All About Irises - American Meadows

Learn about all kinds of irises: They're easy, dependable, and bring the goddess of the rainbow into your garden.

Iris | Description, Species, & Facts - Britannica

iris, (genus Iris), genus of about 300 species of flowering plants, including some of the world's most popular and varied garden flowers. The ...

Iris | Home & Garden Information Center - [email protected]

Iris vary from tiny woodland groundcovers to dramatic flowers for the sunny border to species that thrive in swampy soil.

10 Factoids About Iris - White Flower Farm's blog

Iris is the word for “rainbow” in Greek and designates the Greek goddess of the rainbow. The many colors of Iris flowers are likely the reason ...

How to Grow Irises: The Complete Iris Flower Guide

Despite its divine origins, this beautiful flower is rugged, reliable, and easy to grow. Learn to plant and care for irises for long-term ...

BONNIE'S GARDEN - Six Fun Facts About Iris - Meadows Farms

In Greek mythology, Iris was a messenger from the gods who traveled to earth on a rainbow. Wherever she stepped, flowers sprang up.

Iris (plant) - Wikipedia

Iris (plant) ... Other plants named "iris" are found elsewhere in the Iridaceae. Iris is a flowering plant genus of 310 accepted species with showy flowers. As ...

40 Facts About Irises: Beautiful Flowers and Useful Plants - Owlcation

Irises are perennial plants and grow from rhizomes or bulbs, depending on the species. I've described forty facts about the plants below.

How to Plant and Grow Bearded Iris - Better Homes & Gardens

Iris flowers have three primary structures, and the names of varieties are usually inspired by the unique characteristics of one of the parts.

Iris growing - how to choose, plant and grow irises - YouTube

Top tips from experts Iris of Sissinghurst on how to buy and choose an iris and where to plant irises. Do irises need sun or will they grow ...

The Iris Flower - USDA Forest Service

The competition for pollinators is intense evolving in a habitat where numerous other species of flowering plants are blooming at the same time. Irises have ...

Bearded, Beardless or Dutch, there's an Iris for you!

Named after the Greek goddess of the rainbow, Iris, there are hundreds of iris species in almost all the colors of the rainbow. ... We would not ...

9 Top Types of Iris for the Flower Garden - The Spruce

Are all irises perennials? With over 300 species available, the iris family are perennials and that come back every year. · How do you care for ...

Iris Flower: Varieties to Grow and How to Care for Them - HGTV

All bearded iris make good cut flowers, making these pretty perennials good candidates for a cutting garden. Siberian Iris. Siberian iris is a tough perennial ...

All About Irises - Minnesota State Horticultural Society

Get an introduction to irises, varieties to grow in the north and proper care in this joint production with the Iris Society of Minnesota.

Cultural Information - American Iris Society

They should be set slightly deeper than the tall bearded. Japanese iris should be planted in a distinct “depression” in heavy soil to assist in supplying ...

Iris Planting and Growing Tips - Brecks

How to Grow Popular Iris Varieties. Iris varieties are all relatively easy-growing plants, but care does vary between bulb-grown irises and those grown from ...

How to Grow Irises | Gardener's Supply

Blooms come in a range of colors, and the plants have stiff, upright leaves. All make good cut flowers. In recent years, fragrant varieties have ...

How to Grow Iris | BBC Gardeners World Magazine

Grown in the right spot, irises are easy to grow and long-lived. Most iris flowers bloom in summer, apart from the earliest bulbous types, such ...