Award of Merit 2024 winner, Pacific Coast Iris (Iris 'Big Waves') is an attractive mid-season blooming variety you might want to plant. It's creamy white all over, save for the blue veins that run ...

A white heirloom iris is the heart of today’s column. It is a sentimental tale that makes a fitting story for Mother’s Day. Some of the nicest people live in Texas and many of those are Lubbock ...

QUESTION: I'm trying to locate a white iris that I remember growing in old New Orleans gardens in the 1950s. It was fairly short with broad leaves and beautiful white flowers. I do not remember seeing ...

Whenever I indulge in guacamole made from a Hass avocado, I am reminded of its unlikely origin. In 1926, Rudolph Hass, a mail carrier in Pasadena, planted three avocado seeds in his avocado grove in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The annual sale of iris rhizomes is coming soon! This event, hosted by the volunteers of the Monterey Bay Iris Society, provides an excellent time to add ...

What: Iris ensata “Variegata,” known as variegated Japanese iris, is a lovely and elegant moderately slow growing perennial with beautiful flowers and striking foliage. The dark purple flowers are ...

Walking along the path in Breckenridge that goes from Park Avenue north to the Riverwalk Center we saw an abundance of wild irises, so I decided to find out more about this flower. The scientific name ...

Recent On Gardening columns have presented the most popular groups of garden plants. I first highlighted four groups, but I now count five: California natives, dahlias, irises, roses and succulents.

We’re now at the peak bloom period of the highly regarded garden plant, the iris. For the Monterey Bay area, the popular tall-bearded irises typically reach their peak blooms from the end of April to ...

Q: I have a bed of what USED to be purple bearded iris. All of them have turned to white in color. Is there an amendment I need to make in the soil? Or can you tell me why this has happened? I planted ...