Follow these simple steps for better blooms ...

"Iris gardens are now well into the season when rhizomes are to be divided and transplanted," writes columnist Tom Karwin.

Perfect for a sunny garden, irises produce beautiful, stunning flowers from the late spring into the summer, depending on the ...

Irises should be cut back after blooming to prevent energy loss in seed production and promote robust root growth. Remove unhealthy leaves promptly to prevent the spread of diseases or pests and check ...

Critics of bearded irises say the flowers are too fleeting, their lives too short, that they bloom for a few brief weeks in spring, then are gone until the next season. Further, they maintain, the ...

What it is: Purple Flame is a variety of native blue-flag iris that grows in damp to wet sites and adds the ornamental element of purplish early spring leaves and purple late-spring flowers to its ...

Bearded irises have come a long way from the simple Iris pallida fondly called “Grandma’s flags” and grown in so many gardens many decades ago. Named for the Goddess of the Rainbow in Greek mythology, ...

There are irises and then there are royal irises, majestically capacious flowers dramatically blooming now from the north to the south of Israel, putting on one of the biggest and most dramatic shows ...

Generations of botanists had tramped unwittingly past the diminutive blue flower without noticing it. But worldwide fame now beckons for a previously unidentified iris that flowers for just two weeks ...