Celebrated for their brilliant blooms, bearded irises are popular cottage garden favorites. With beautiful colors and markings, there are many different varieties of bearded irises, from golden yellow ...

and give an abundance of beauty with minimum care. However, while healthy plants are capable of flowering prolifically over a long season, they do rely on a few growing essentials. Crucially, most ...

Celebrated for their brilliant blooms, bearded irises are popular cottage garden favorites. With beautiful colors and markings, there are many different varieties of bearded irises, from golden ...

Last week’s article covered the origin, classification, description, care, propagation and placement of the various types of ...

bulbs are not suitable for division. Bearded irises (sometimes sold as Iris germanica cultivars) have large fleshy stems (rhizomes) at soil level and flowers with soft hairs (the ‘beard’) on their ...

Bearded irises are so-named after the 'beards' on each of the falls (lower petals) of the flowers. Tall bearded irises grow to a height of around 70cm or more, and flower in late-spring and early ...

There's a huge range of irises available for sale, with the showy flowers of bearded irises proving a reliable and eye-catching addition to many gardens. But if you’re looking for something a little ...