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.

The Pacific Coast Iris plant is quite compact, maturing at under 10 inches in height, though its red-marked, glossy evergreen ...

Once separated from its label, the iris becomes unidentified, or a “NoID,” and the Willott Garden team must wait until the flower blooms again to re-identify and label it. Irises prefer full ...

ABBEVILLE, La. (WVUE) - The red iris, one of Louisiana’s rarest native flowers, blooms each April in a swamp near the town of Abbeville—its only known natural habitat in the world. Unlike the ...

Iris flowers have three upper petals ... A remaining Holy Grail for hybridizers is to breed a true red bearded iris. “There are probably nearly 100,000 named varieties of bearded irises ...

Durrance’s lifetime avocation was growing and hybridizing flowers, starting with gladiolus ... Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, for the red iris. He was elected chairman of the International ...

Salathe looks like he’s found gold, but this treasure is a deep red flower, the Abbeville red iris that grows naturally here and no place else in the world. What did you think the first time you ...