When I was a young girl, one of my favorite perennials was irises. I couldn’t wait for them to bloom because then I knew that warm weather was close. We had the bearded iris. Most of them bloomed in purple, but we did have a few yellow ones mixed in. For centuries, almost every home ...
Dutch iris are different from other iris in that they are grown from a bulb rather than a corm. Dutch iris are ideal cut flowers. In fact, commercial florists make a big business of growing them under glass for this purpose. However, they do not need a glass house to bring them into bloom as ...
One of the easiest perennial flower plants to grow has to be the bearded iris and it doesn’t hurt that it’s also one of the most beautiful flowers, with hundreds of rainbow hued varieties to choose from. July and August are prime months of ordering, planting, and dividing iris plants, although you can plant through ...
Spring is the time to enjoy all of those hardy bulbs that were planted in the fall. The crocus, hyacinths, daffodils and tulips put on their gorgeous show and then disappear until next spring. But spring is not the only time to enjoy bulbs, since they flower in almost every season. There are several hardy ...
Flowers fill the air with a fragrance. Sweet, heady, exotic, and spicy fragrances perfume the air with their various scents. Fragrance is ever changing, as the flowers come and go, the fragrance is never quite the same. Romantic fragrance gardens can set the mood for a romantic evening, perfuming the air with lovely aromas. Aromatherapy ...
