Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's a magical time when bearded iris flowers unfurl their pencil-slim buds to reveal a kaleidoscope of color in spring. Once ...

Irises are among the easiest flowers to propagate, and growers everywhere have sought to put their own spin on them, offering an array of elaborate blooms in virtually every color of the rainbow.

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 ...

Irises are among the easiest flowers to propagate, and growers everywhere have sought to put their own spin on them, offering an array of elaborate blooms in virtually every color of the rainbow.

One of the oldest and best-known perennials in the home landscape is the bearded iris, sometimes called a German iris or a flag. But the genus Iris contains almost 300 species, and many irises have ...

We’re now at the peak bloom period of the highly regarded garden plant, the iris. Irises are popular attractions for home gardens, based on their astonishing range of blossom colors and forms, their ...

Men and irises have one thing in common, some have beards, others don't. In every other respect, irises strike me as being feminine. Named after the Greek rainbow goddess, the flowers are delicate, ...