With the month of May we arrive at the zenith of spring, the height of foaming foliage and flower. However, I want to highlight the range of stately garden irises this month that rise up in the border ...

Bearded irises with distinctive fuzziness on their lower petals are favorites among many. Vincent Van Gogh featured them in his famous painting, "Irises." In 1969, Lester and Edith Brooks founded ...

We’re now at the peak bloom period of the highly regarded garden plant, the iris. For the Monterey Bay area, the popular tall-bearded irises typically reach their peak blooms from the end of ...

The Falkland resident has more than 250 different coloured irises painting a rainbow in the backyard ... are a variety called tall bearded irises, although she has some dwarf varieties as well.

Weeping willows and poplars abound, and on the banks of the stream he has planted hundreds of flowers—gladioluses, irises ... of the artist’s Water Lilies paintings, evoke a dreamy contentment ...

Mike Wolcott’s musings on the bearded irises from his old family homestead got me wondering more about their history in the US. “Bearded” irises are native to Europe and East Asia ...

During Vincent van Gogh’s year-long stay in a French asylum, he created some 150 paintings—including Irises and The Starry ... portrait depicts a white-bearded man by the sea who is smoking ...

In a letter to his brother Theo van Gogh dated May 9, the artist wrote that he had begun painting the “violet irises” that grow on the parklike hospital grounds. Violet. It’s a small but ...

Non-native bearded iris are taller than their Pacific Coast cousins and prefer full sun. They come in a multitude of colors and last a week or longer as a vibrant cut flower because there are so ...