This blend of toughness with intense, yet fleeting, beauty is an apt metaphor for Cleveland and makes Rockefeller Park Greenhouse and Botanical Garden a fitting location for preserving the work of the ...

Our earliest bearded irises have started blooming just in time to add color to the garden as the last of the spring flowering bulbs are fading. As such, they occupy a valuable niche in the flower ...

DENVER — Everybody loves iris, but as your garden becomes shadier over time, your iris may need sunnier locations. Even if you have plenty of sun, clumps need to be divided when they become ...

FARGO — Did you hear about the gardener who mistakenly called Sunnyside Cemetery instead of Sunnyside Garden Center? When the gardener asked how deep to plant iris, the old undertaker who answered ...

Irises are so beautiful and come in a myriad of colors that suit almost any taste or garden. There are a few reasons that Sally’s irises may be toppling over. The first and the easiest to eliminate is ...

The bearded iris is beloved for its large, showy, fragrant flowers. It has six petals: three upright or standard, three drooping or falling, and a frilly beard in the center that leads pollinators to ...

Mary Ann Horton accidentally fell into the iris business. About 25 years ago, she started salvaging heirloom irises from abandoned foothill farms. "I'd dig up old irises and bring them home," she said ...

If you don't grow irises, or have only a couple of old ones that were in the garden when you moved in, it's easy to dismiss them from today's plant palette. After all, most of them bloom only once, ...

exist if it weren't for a couple who, in the late 1940s, fell in love and went on to devote their lives to the flowers. Dorothy Willott of Beachwood and her late husband, Tony, who died at age 81 in ...

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 ...