Melvin Gardner's eye for the iris is attracting lots of attention in Horton. Gardner's iris garden is greatly expanded this year and the number of folks who stop and ask to take a peek also has ...

Mary Ann Long seemed amazed within moments of arriving at the Northeast Indiana Iris Society’s showcase of more than 100 irises in downtown Fort Wayne. Long paused Sunday at a table of tall bearded ...

Gardeners who appreciate blooms of many colors are invited to become dazzled at the 2017 Iris Show, convened by the Monterey Bay Iris Society, the local chapter of the American Iris Society. The ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... There are almost as many reasons to love bearded irises as there are colors of these basically bulletproof plants. They’re drought-tolerant. They cope in ...

The crossing, or interbreeding, of these species has resulted in the modern Louisiana iris hybrid varieties we grow today. Their large attractive flowers cover a broad range of colors including many ...

Iris takes its name from the Greek word for rainbow. Iris blossoms can be found in all the colors of the rainbow, in any combination, because of hybridization. For decades, irises have been for ...

Pat Norvell produced a Louisiana iris that her granddaughter wants to be her namesake. If Norvell were to register it, the name would be 'Kiley's Pick.' Pat Norvell Pat Norvell can name-drop with the ...

Once they were called flags. Gardening books call them irises and earlier they were known as the fleur-de-lis, a name of royal derivation dating back to the time of Louis VII, who chose the iris for ...

As a child growing up in the mountains of Western North Carolina, I thought irises were part of the orchid family because their blooms were just as spectacular and exotic. I would find native irises ...

Among my favorite spring wildflowers are the amazingly beautiful native Louisiana iris species. You may see them blooming in swampy or boggy areas or in ditches along roads. In gardens and landscapes, ...