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Get a headstart on next year's blooms by planting bulbs in autumn. ... Care requirements: ... Martha's Top Tips for Planting Daffodil Bulbs. Dwarf Iris.
Iris is extensively grown as ornamental plant in home and botanical gardens. Presby Memorial Iris Gardens in New Jersey, for example, is a living iris museum with over 10,000 plants, [24] while in Europe the most famous iris garden is arguably the Giardino dell'Iris in Florence (Italy) which every year hosts a well attended iris breeders ...
Iris tuberosa (formerly Hermodactylus tuberosus) is a species of tuberous flowering plant of the genus Iris, with the common names snake's-head, [4] snake's-head iris, [5] widow iris, black iris, or velvet flower-de-luce.
Iris giganticaerulea, the giant blue iris, is a species of iris, in the subgenus Limniris, in the series Hexagonae.It is a rhizomatous perennial, from northern America.It has long bright green leaves, very tall stems and one or two musky fragrant flowers in a range of blue shades (pale, bright, dark, lavender and violet) or rarely white.
Iris planifolia growing wild near Elvas, Portugal. Iris planifolia has a large brown ovoid bulb (around 2 in (51 mm) in diameter), [2] with fleshy cylindrical white roots. [3] [4] The shiny green leaves that grow up to 10–30 cm (3.9–11.8 in) long and 1–3 cm wide [4] can conceal the short stem [2] at flowering time.
Leaves are stiff and sword-shaped, approximately 60 cm long, and dark green to teal in color. Leaves begin growth in early spring, before the snow has entirely melted. It is a bulbous iris, as opposed to a rhizomatous iris. The bulb has a thin, dark brown skin and grows 10–15 cm deep in the ground. [4]
Iris unguicularis (syn. Iris stylosa), the Algerian iris, is a rhizomatous flowering plant in the genus Iris, native to Algeria, Greece, Turkey, Western Syria, and Tunisia. It grows to 30 centimetres (12 in), with grassy evergreen leaves, producing pale lilac or purple flowers with a central band of yellow on the falls.
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