How to Divide Bearded Iris Bearded iris produce leaves, flower stems, and roots from a thick, rootlike structure called a rhizome. As the plant matures, the rhizome produces more rhizomes ...

Irises are some of the most versatile flowers to grow. With an overwhelming number of varieties to choose from, there really ...

It’s no wonder the plant is named for the Greek goddess of the rainbow. The intricacy of bearded iris blooms is at the heart of their appeal. Each flower has six petals; three upright or ...

A good drainage-aiding strategy is to plant them in raised beds or on a slope. Bearded iris flowers have three ruffled petals—known as standards—that stand upright, combined with three petals ...

Our earliest bearded irises have started blooming just in time to add color to the garden as the last of the spring flowering bulbs are fading. As such, they occupy a valuable niche in the flower ...

This is the tall bearded iris or fleur-de-lis ... Clivia is the only plant for the shade garden that flowers in glowing orange, although varieties with salmon, yellow, pink, red, and white ...

It reminded me that August is the time to divide and plant iris. Perennial flower beds are most attractive ... but the most common is called bearded or German iris (from the botanical name Iris ...

Jane shows us how to divide an iris to encourage more eye-catching flowers. Bearded irises are beautiful ... a simple way to rejuvenate them. Irises grow from a rhizome, an underground stem ...

Most bearded iris don’t grow well at all in South Alabama ... the new shoots often produce only white flowers, and the deviant purple form seems to “disappear.” Now here’s the important ...

My bearded irises never flowered this year, despite the fact that I made sure to grow them in a spot where ... there’s always the chance that your iris flowers were eaten by slugs or snails ...