No kaleidoscope of color can inject as much elegance or grace into a garden as white Iris flowers do. Symbolizing purity and ...

Last week was a great gardening week for me. For the first time this season, I planted more things than I brought home. With a lot of help from my family, we put a serious dent in the stockpile of ...

Just north of Santa Margarita, in the southernmost part of Atascadero, is a unique and beautiful iris nursery that is really more of a farm. Tucked back among the oak trees beside a seasonal creek, ...

Among my favorite spring wildflowers are the amazingly beautiful native Louisiana iris species. You may see them blooming in swampy or boggy areas or in ditches along roads. In gardens and landscapes, ...

Tall bearded irises are among the most dramatically beautiful flowers in our gardens, but they are not carefree. Ignore them for three or four years and the quantity of blooms will peter out, the iris ...

In early June the irises put on their annual show. Their bold flowers in nearly every color of the rainbow are the mainstays of the summer garden. And now is the time to divide them. Most spring and ...

Flowers are blooming across the Treasure Coast. There are many cool season bloomers such as begonias sharing the last winter flowers and spring and summer flower-ers are bursting into bloom. This week ...