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Books : Home & Garden : Gardening & Horticulture : By Plant : Irises
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Irises bring color and elegance to a garden and are surprisingly easy to grow. In this book designed for the home gardener, William Shear, a 40-year veteran of iris growing, shares his expertise in choosing, planting, growing, and propagating exquisite irises. All of the essentials on iris care are carefully and simply explained, along with tips to ensure a stunning display from healthy plants. Starting with the tall bearded iris, the book features iris types that will grow in almost any condition--dry, wet, shady, or sunny. Specific cultural advice for the most desirable and adaptable iris types allows gardeners to choose the plants best suited to their region of the country. Lavish photos by renowned garden photographer Roger Foley will foster a love of timeless irises in every gardener.
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An international authority on irises offers the first definitive book in English on the history and cultivation of the Japanese iris.
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This guide to the beautiful iris makes clear distinctions between the many types of iris and gives the information gardeners need to provide the best conditions for those they covet. Superb photographs provide inspiration for both novice and expert gardeners. Written for North American gardeners, the expert text is concise and informative, including interesting anecdotes about the long history of the genus and advice on:
- planting, cultivation and propagation using irises in garden design bearded irises bulbous irises beardless irises Pacific Coast or Californian irises Louisiana irises Japanese irises Siberian irises Rocky Mountain irises Juno irises water-loving irises Evansia (or crested) irises picking and caring for blooms pests and diseases.
With over 95 beautiful full color photographs, a selection of more than 120 plants is recommended by the authors. A glossary, a bibliography, and mail-order sources are valuable features of the book.
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This complete treatment of genus Iris and the related genera Iridodictym, Hermodactylus, Gynandrisis, and Juno provides in-depth coverage of over 200 species, plus information on subspecies, varieties, natural hybrids, and cultivars. Fritz Köhlein, one of the world's leading horticulturists, includes detailed habitat information, thorough cultivation instructions, suggestions for uses in the landscape, and recommendations on cultivars that will lead the gardener to the best and most successful use of these splendid genera. A comprehensive index guides the reader through the labyrinth of iris names.Published at $39.95 Our last copies available at $19.98
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A beautifully illustrated introduction stressing irises for mild climates (the book was originally published in New Zealand), with descriptions of important species, information on soil and cultivation requirements, discussions of propagation, pests and diseases, and suggestions for using irises in the landscape.
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Plants go in and out of fashion as rapidly as hemlines rise and fall. Iris, along with other old-fashioned flowers like hollyhocks and hydrangeas, are once again popular, resulting in a flurry of new iris cultivars and books.Too often these books focus on descriptions and comparisons of all the truly gorgeous varieties of iris, rhapsodizing over falls and beards and color shadings. Sure, it helps to understand the differences between bearded and Louisiana iris, between species and cultivars, but what a gardener really needs to know is how to integrate these tall, stiff and flamboyant flowers into our home gardens.
There are enough color photographs in Iris: Flower of the Rainbow to convince anyone of the beauty and possibilities of iris; tall bearded iris like hot spice in muted tones of cocoa, gold, and cream, or the delicately splotched lavender-and-white Japanese iris, freckled geisha, are nearly irresistible. What this book uniquely offers are drawings, photos, and advice on how to use iris in the garden along with other plants, and how to time their bloom, mix in with perennials and shrubs, and use in ponds and as edging and in rockeries. The author makes the case for using iris in nearly every garden situation; the easy-to-grow, perfumed Iris unguiculalris flowers dependably in winter, Iris foetedissima grows happily in the shade, and I. pallida variegata has spiky foliage striped in brilliant yellow, a focal point long after the flower has faded.
It's unclear whether the final chapter, "The Future--2000 and Beyond," is prescient or just entertaining, but you won't want to miss the doctored color photos of irises in startling kelly green, or pure black combined with baby-pink. --Valerie Easton
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This book features a wealth of practical advice on irises' special garden use, cultivation, propagation, and pest and disease control. Illustrated with superbly detailed photographs, it will delight iris lovers and perhaps even inspire a new generation of iris growers.
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"This book is exhaustive, accurate . . . One of its outstanding features is the 47 F. H. Round watercolors. Truly a great book."—Tulsa Daily World. A legendary resource in the history of botanical literature, this volume comprises the life's work of the world's foremost authority on irises. Scholarly yet accessible, it converts the tangle of iris hybrids and varieties into clear, complete groupings and descriptions that form the modern classifications. Magnificent reproductions of 47 full-color paintings of irises by F. H. Round complement the text, along with 31 other illustrations.
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A distillation of the author's more than 40 years' experience in growing and hybridizing, this book is devoted to every aspect of these lovely, exotic irises. The author was the first to introduce tetraploidy in Siberian and Japanese irises and has bred, registered, and introduced almost 100 new Siberians.
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This volume provides the first comprehensive, botanically detailed and up-to-date survey of this beautiful group of plants since publication of The Genus Iris by W. R. Dykes early this century. Following the pattern of the original Dykes monograph, botanical details, cultivation suggestions and general comments are supplied, and the work is generously illustrated with accurate line drawings, colour pictures of unusual species and distribution maps. This new survey includes all of the species which have been described so far this century and takes into account the many changes in classification which have taken place in the group. Information currently scattered in the literature is brought together in one volume to provide an authoritative reference for professional botanists and growers, and a mine of useful information for amateur gardeners and iris enthusiasts.