World of Irises

Kathleen Sayce, May 2024 This spring I heard from two gardeners on the East Coast. Each is successfully growing Pacifica iris in very differ...

Kathleen Sayce A multi-year planting plan is coming together for fall on a dune west of my house. It began four years ago with systematic iv...

by Kathleen Sayce Mowing the upper edge of the marsh along the Washington State U.S. coast on Memorial Weekend, I found a flowering iris gro...

Kathleen Sayce There’s a theory that people who like plants and garden throughout their lives express that fascination at a very young age. ...

by Kathleen Sayce  When I began focusing on irises more than 20 years ago, I was eager to hybridize for deeply saturated colors and weather-...

by Kathleen Sayce  The astronomical calendar has rotated into autumn: Rain and cooler weather bring mushrooms, migrating birds and salmon, a...

by Kathleen Sayce Rain was due on the night of May 1, so I went out before dark to take photos of first flowers that opened that day and the...

by Kathleen Sayce Iris douglasiana seedling at Atlanta Botanical Garden In January 2022, Raleigh Wasser, Horticulture Manager, Atlanta Bota...

 by Kathleen Sayce A conversation with a lapsed and now renewed member of Society for Pacific Coast Native Iris (SPCNI) reminded me of my l...

Kathleen Sayce, June 18, 2021 A seedling PCI shows its complex parentage It’s been eight months since the wild lawn was planted at the new o...

By Kathleen Sayce, with  Photos by Tom Lofken Tom lives in northern California, and took the photos for this essay over several years.   Iri...