World of 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 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 Dwarf bearded irises may be found growing wild throughout much of southwestern Europe, from Spain and Portugal, through ...