These Japanese garden ideas will inspire you to try this serene style at home – from planting options to tips on outdoor ...

Iris flowers are seen at Horikiri Shobuen Iris Garden in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward, June 13, 2025. Some 6,000 Japanese iris ...

Time heals no wounds in “Brand New Landscape,” an outwardly gentle but subtly cutting domestic drama that begins as a ...

Our Earth, Wind and Flowers Garden Club's small tour of three gardens brought both friends and curious neighbors. It was an early season tour, not quite the end of spring and before summer enters.

With the month of May we arrive at the zenith of spring, the height of foaming foliage and flower. However, I want to highlight the range of stately garden irises this month that rise up in the ...

When the flowers finish, the seed capsules are great architectural statements through the summer. The iris laevigata varieties (Japanese irises) are also moisture lovers. They sit like butterflies on ...

You could either stick to the tall bearded varieties, or the smoother, beardless options, like Siberian, Japanese, or the group of Pacific Coast native Irises. To simplify your decision, we've listed ...

The study focused on Iris ensata var. spontanea, a wild ancestor of Japanese iris cultivars, to assess its genetic diversity and conservation potential Edo cultivars showed low inbreeding and formed a ...