HERITAGE IRISES

Harmonics is a mid to late season flowering plicata and presents the ultimate contrast, not just the blue and white distinctive plicata pa...

Another delightful Iris from the Late Jean Stevens. This photo was taken at the garden's of, Mary Greaves the Treasurer of the Mastert...

A nice blue with just a splash of yellow  Iris 'Harmony' is a very popular hybrid of Iris histrioides and Iris reticul...

A Colour sometimes described as Toasted Watermelon, Lady Friend is an Early flowering Iris carrying an abundance of bloom is a robust gro...

Last time I posted on my Blog it was July and now its August, how about that. Just where does this year think its going. The American Ir...

. . The above and below scans are from H C Gibbons & Co.1904 Seed, Trees, and Plant catalogue kindly loaned to me by Gareth Winter. The ...

SCENE STEALER by Hooker Nichols is an aptly named and very attractive amoena white standards infused with pale violet at their base,...

Last Friday I went to the much anticipated Wellington Film Festival screening of the documentary 'A Blooming Business' whi...

DYKES MEMORIAL MEDAL 2009 GOLDEN PANTHER (Tasco 2000) TB 34" (86 cm), M, Heavily ruffled gold, overlaid bronze, highlighted wi...