PORTLAND, Ore. — Summer is here, and ushering it in are the Portland Japanese Garden's iris flowers! The Garden announced that the irises have started to bloom this week, just in time for the warmer ...

Irises blanket a garden in purple at Hayamizu Park in Miyakonojo, Miyazaki Prefecture, on April 18, 2021. Some 420,000 flowers consisting of 28,000 iris plants showed the first signs of blossoming ...

What: Iris ensata “Variegata,” known as variegated Japanese iris, is a lovely and elegant moderately slow growing perennial with beautiful flowers and striking foliage. The dark purple flowers are ...

Four or five years ago, my wife Beth and I were walking through Skip and Peggy Shaver's garden in Freeland. Peggy is quite a gardener and stays on top of all the new varieties of perennials available ...

There is nothing to equal the Festival of the Fifth Month, when the scents of the iris and sagebrush mingle so charmingly. The children are proud of themselves and keep looking at the flowers on their ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Early summer blooms are making a splash around the Portland Japanese Garden’s Zig-Zag Bridge as the summer heat builds. These flowers give a nice pop of color of purple and ...

One of the oldest and best-known perennials in the home landscape is the bearded iris, sometimes called a German iris or a flag. But the genus Iris contains almost 300 species, and many irises have ...

There’s a knowledgeable 17-year- old in Woodstock who likes Japanese irises. In fact, he likes them so well that he’s opened his own nursery, now in its second year. His name is J. Quinn Martin. The ...

A thick thatched roof topped with purple iris flowers shelters this timber sheep pen in Kyoto, Japan, which has been designed by local architecture practice 2m26. Named Hitsujigoya, meaning sheep pen ...