For gardeners looking for a smaller non-bearded iris to grow in container gardens, consider the bright dwarf crested iris, or Iris cristata. These blooms are native to North America and only grow ...

Your dwarf wild iris is probably Iris cristata (EYE-riss cris-TAH-tuh), dwarf crested iris, which is naturally a denizen of moist woodlands in the eastern US, where it thrives under the high ...

Talk about an appropriate species name - where would one ever think to use the words iris and bamboo in the same reference name? This crested iris owes its common name to bamboo-like stems that ...

Of the rhizomatous types, there are three classifications — bearded, beardless and crested. Rhizomatous irises include the bearded or German iris, the Louisiana iris, Japanese iris, Siberian ...

And, hugging the ground, a drift of dwarf crested iris offers delicate charm. Dwarf crested iris (Iris cristata) is a small iris, less than six inches tall in bloom, with two- to three-inch wide ...

It forms extensive colonies. Propogate by spore division. Crested iris The shade-loving rhizomatous crested iris These spreading evergreen irises produce pale, orchidlike blooms in spring.

There are about 300 species of irises, from the native crested iris to bearded and Siberian types. “Daylilies thrive on water throughout the season. Irises really don't need too much water after ...

To the photographer's astonishment, Josephine Shanks pulls the crested iris from a shady flower bed. "Everybody who goes to a garden has to leave with something," she laughs, handing him the ...

The flowers of spring enhance our gardens, uplift our spirits, and inspire poets and botanists. Spring is also a time for garden tours, both public and private, with like-minded aspiring gardeners ...

There are hundreds of species of iris that come in all colors and vary in size from the tiny woodland groundcovers like the dwarf crested iris to the large, frowsy bearded iris that crowned your ...