The lovely irises are finally blooming. Do you have irises in your landscape? With their colors and gray-green foliage, they can certainly put on a colorful show. Irises are hardy, long-lived ...

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 ...

Q: When we inherited this home, we had a lot of places that were planted with iris. Since we’re back in the house and the landscaping has been taken care of, we noticed that the iris beds ...

After years of pandemic isolation, the Monterey Bay Iris Society’s annual rhizome sale returns, to the delight of current and new iris aficionados. Today’s column updates earlier columns. Irises are ...

Although cool temperatures and abundant rainfall may not be the start to summer that most had envisioned, the plants are thriving, and I am grateful that most of the region is no longer considered to ...

I remember as a child the sweet fragrance and stunning colors of the species Iris germanica, or bearded iris. I can still recall my first encounter when I was about 6; I stopped in the middle of the ...

Many area gardeners want to use more native plants in their landscapes. There are wonderful trees, shrubs, vines and herbaceous plants native to Louisiana and the Gulf Coast that are excellent choices ...

While July gardening chores revolve around watering, weeding, deadheading and helping plants through the heat, those chores might include transplanting bearded iris and watching for powdery mildew on ...