HERITAGE IRISES

Your Iris Garden, Plan it When the Irises are in Bloom By Jean Stevens The right time to plan the rearrangement of a bed of Bearded Irises ...

Happy New Year to you all and a great way to start the new decade is with the Jean Stevens (nee Burgess) heirloom and historic tall beard...

Fashions in Iris breeding and the end result, the blossom's are constantly changing. Pacific Coast Irises are little known Irises,...

Freesia alba Burtonii Iridaceae This plant is a New Zealand classic garden icon, blooms with an amazing perfume that for me heralds t...

New Zealand Native Clematis paniculata (syn. C. indivisa) Our beautiful native Clematis which the Maoris call 'puawhananga' ap...

'Proud Tradition' is in my opinion the best 'Neglecta' when it comes to the "classic modern form". It has wide a...

Perhaps one of my great finds in New Zealand this year is an Heirloom Iris of significant historical importance growing in an Auckland ga...

Barry Blyth's, 'Touch of Mahogany' is a totally different look with its varying tones of russets, browns, and ruby red burg...

A delightful self of medium-blue colour 'Breakers' flowers on well-branched stems. Blooms late spring and sometimes early autumn....