HERITAGE IRISES

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

It's not everyday you see a Lemon plicata so Ron Busch's 'Irwell Desert Sands' is a welcome addition to the colour-ton...

ACCENT ON IRIS FLOWER SHOW 20th October, 2012 Saturday 10 am to 3 pm Burrell Creek Hall, The Bucketts Way Burrell Creek, New South...

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...

THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE . SOME NEW IRISES, June 4th 1887. I.BILIOTTI sp. n. Rhizome like that of I.germanica . Leaves of a darker ...

     So as not to detract from the writings of Sir Michael Foster I have kept seperate the following additional information. A HA...