World of Irises

 by Tom Waters This is the second of three posts on my experimenting with various species in breeding miniature dwarf bearded (MDB) irises...

by Tom Waters I’m a hobby hybridizer, working on a very small scale (I can only raise about 200 seedlings each year). So from the outset, ...

by Tom Waters Dwarf and Median Bearded Irises: Jewels of the Iris World Kevin C. Vaughn Schiffer Publishing, 2022 ISBN 978-0-7643-6389-4 144...

 by Tom Waters Most of us are quite familiar with the gorgeous hybrid bearded irises grown in so many gardens around the world. Whether dwa...

By Tom Waters Before 1958, the now familiar American Iris Society (AIS) horticultural classes for bearded irises did not exist. Certainly t...

By Tom Waters This time of year, most gardeners in the northern hemisphere are patiently (or not) waiting for spring to come. If you are a b...

 by Tom Waters Forty-some years ago, when I was a precocious iris-obsessed teenager, I convinced my mother that our vacation to California...