World of Irises

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 There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.                  —Francis Bacon It seems l...

 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...

…and why are dwarf lovers so persistent?  Tom Waters 'Icon' (Keppel, 2008) In the beginning, there were no class d...

by Tom Waters There are three classes of median irises that span the interval between the standard dwarf bearded (SDB) and tall beard...

Tom Waters I. aphylla The European bearded iris species Iris aphylla has contributed to the development of modern bearded irises in ...

by Tom Waters Today's post is all about an underappreciated bearded iris species, Iris reichenbachii.  The name, it seems, is bigger t...

by Tom Waters 'Brash and Bold'  (Black, 2009) In my blog post this April about arilbred irises, I mentioned that these striki...

by Tom Waters 'Abuzz With Charm' (Coleman, 2013) Standard dwarf bearded irises (SDBs) are defined as bearded irises between...