Even though it doesn’t quite feel like spring, it’s not too early to start planning your garden and spring planting. Although many iris varieties are planted in the fall, there is a variety of ...

Siberian irises are herbaceous perennials, meaning they produce fresh foliage every spring. These are tallish, narrow, vertical leaves that rise about 3 feet and are accompanied by tall stems ...

The "beardless" irises include Japanese, Louisiana, and Siberian irises which grow from rhizomes, but these rhizomes are quite different in appearance from their German cousins.

Siberian iris. This iris has grassy foliage that grows from 1 foot to 3 feet tall and flowers in shades of white, purple, pink, blue and even light yellow, ...

Siberian irises grow 2-4 feet tall and bloom several weeks after bearded irises. Japanese irises are the last irises to bloom and have the largest and showiest blooms.

Siberian irises have slender leaves that are narrow (approximately ½ inch wide), upright and grasslike in appearance. The green foliage often turns an attractive yellow or orange-brown in the fall.

Iris add color just before the perennials begin to pop in. A yellow Siberian iris next to Sugar Rush was just beginning to open. The soft yellow terminal blooms are displayed singly a whole ...

The Siberian iris, with its narrow, sword-like leaves grows in a tall, circular clump, tolerates moist soil, rarely needs division and adds a bold feature to the perennial garden.

All three gardens had bearded irises and Siberian varieties. In Scotts' yard a bearded iris named Judy Mogil had to be blasting away. It was so in my yard because Karen shared this cultivar with me.

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens has received a collection of about 70 Siberian irises hybridized by the late Currier McEwen, a Harpswell resident who literally wrote the book – published in 1996 ...