HERITAGE IRISES

Pictured above are Mrs. Jean Stevens, President of the New Zealand Iris Society and Marion Walker, President of the American Iris Soc...

View the BBC TWO video where Richard Cayeux  demonstrates how to hybridise Irises. A garden inspired by the arts and crafts movement wou...

BREEDING BEARDED IRISES By Jean Stevens Bastia Hill, Wanganui, New Zealand. One of the prime urges of the gardener is the instinct...

'Sopra Il Vulcano' featured in the previous post was introduced in 1998. So just let’s fast forward a few years after this br...

GOT ME THINKING AGAIN The thoughts for these posts on hybridising came about late February when I was sent the photo of 'Sop...

This stunning Iris is the result of crosses between three irises that on average were each twenty years old at the time of hybridising...