Irises are low maintenance plants, but it's easy to make consequential mistakes when planting their bulbs. Learn how to avoid the biggest planting blunders.

If you want beautiful blooms from your bearded irises in the spring, these late summer maintenance tasks are key. Luckily, ...

The bearded irises used to seem to me too regal and stately to love, in fact, rather pompous. (There are other estimable kinds of irises, but the tall ...

Irises are hardy, long-lived perennials that are easy to grow, need a minimum of care and tolerate a variety of conditions. Producing graceful flowers in a wide range of shapes, sizes and colors ...

When preparing a spot to plant Louisiana irises, incorporate a generous 3-inch layer of compost or rotted manure and a general-purpose fertilizer following label directions.

One reader asks how to divide up bearded irises to produce healthier blooms. Another questions what to look for when buying spring blooming bulbs. Two garden experts share their advice.

Existing perennial weeds can be a real nightmare to control in any flower garden. If you start preparing your iris bed now, you will have plenty of time to eradicate those weeds for July planting ...

It's time to start thinking about planting and dividing irises for a spectacular show in the spring garden. As with most flowers, irises like soil mixed with manure and/or compost; add a little ...

Louisiana iris is the name used worldwide for a unique group of iris hybrids derived by breeding together five iris species found growing together only here in Louisiana.

If you have yellow flags (Iris pseudacorus), you should not plant them with your Louisiana irises. The yellow flags are more vigorously growing plants native to Europe, and they will crowd out the ...

Longtime Douglas County resident and Master Gardener Carole Mitchell recently donated her iris collection to the Lawrence-based nonprofit Sunrise Project, to be sold as a fundraiser for the ...