With so many gorgeous varieties of bearded iris available, it's hard to know where to begin. Enter professional gardener Peg ...

With showy flowers and undemanding personalities, irises are stars of springtime gardens throughout Ohio. They are named after the Greek goddess of the rainbow, Iris, attesting to their wide range of ...

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 ...

We are in iris planting season, made apparent by the annual sales of the Monterey Bay Iris Society and the deluge of catalogs from iris growers. The iris family (Iridaceae) is huge, with about 2,000 ...

Bearded irises are, undoubtedly, the tall standouts of the spring bulbs, with their showstopper flowers, complete with the ruffled edges that give them their name. If you’re looking for more variety, ...

Old names have certainly circled back into popularity, and according to recent lists, garden-related names are back in style, too, like Violet, Dahlia, Ivy, Lily, Rose and Daisy. I guess no one wants ...

Tall bearded irises are among the most dramatically beautiful flowers in our gardens, but they are not carefree. Ignore them for three or four years and the quantity of blooms will peter out, the iris ...

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 ...