Renowned for colorful flowers that often have detailed markings, irises are some of the most popular cottage garden plants.

Read more: 15 Flowers You Can Grow To Ward Off Insects At first glance, some bearded and beardless iris species look similar. What sets them apart is the small patch of fuzz on the lower petals of ...

Keep at least one developing eye or bud with each division. Bearded irises are plants that have rhizomes. Iris divisions should keep a few inches of rhizome and one fan of leaves trimmed back halfway.

His plant suggestions include Dark Purple Alyssum ... Forever Blue, a standard dwarf bearded iris was developed by iris breeder Chuck Chapman. (Barbara-Jean Jackson photo) “Most (reblooming ...

Left: This 126 year-old bearded iris is preserved in the U.S. National Herbarium alongside millions of other plant specimens. (Smithsonian) Right: A close-up of a bearded iris shows the hair-like ...

On the other hand, plants like daylilies, peonies, bee balm and bearded iris should be cut back in fall. Here's more on the do's and don't's of fall pruning. When it comes to trees, UMN experts ...

However, after several years the clumps will run out of steam and die off in the middle, leaving plants that are reluctant to flower. Fortunately it's easy to revive them. Irises spread by ...

At Ballyrobert Cottage Garden, Maurice Parkinson is planting miniature Irises for a splash of colour in February next year. He’s also dividing autumn flowering cyclamen which he says are the ...

Bulbs here will bloom from January through June, six months of flowers. With that said ... and Mount Everest is a great pure white beauty. Bearded iris finish off this month and that’s when the ...

Recently Ros Turner (who has been a member of our Garden Club) moved to her new surrounds down the Coast to be closer to her ...

The Poverty Bay Horticultural Society Summer Show was held at the Farmers Air Event Centre last weekend. Event categories ...