Irises blanket a garden in purple at Hayamizu Park in Miyakonojo, Miyazaki Prefecture, on April 18, 2021. Some 420,000 flowers consisting of 28,000 iris plants showed the first signs of blossoming ...

Iris flowers are seen in full bloom at Horikiri Shobu-en (Iris Garden) in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on June 12, 2021. Six-thousand iris plants consisting of some 200 varieties, including Kumo-isho ...

“Horikiri Iris Garden” is the fifty-sixth print in Utagawa Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The striking foreground placement of the irises has long been admired as an exemplar of ...

“Those who have time for drama are not gardening enough.” Maybe it is because Iris was my mom’s name that it’s been a goal to create an iris garden in honor of her. Maybe it’s because the flower has ...

When people mention going to Japan for hanami (flower-watching in Japanese), one would usually think of sakura or cherry blossoms. But there are also other equally beautiful flowers that bloom ...

What: Iris ensata “Variegata,” known as variegated Japanese iris, is a lovely and elegant moderately slow growing perennial with beautiful flowers and striking foliage. The dark purple flowers are ...

There is nothing to equal the Festival of the Fifth Month, when the scents of the iris and sagebrush mingle so charmingly. The children are proud of themselves and keep looking at the flowers on their ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Early summer blooms are making a splash around the Portland Japanese Garden’s Zig-Zag Bridge as the summer heat builds. These flowers give a nice pop of color of purple and ...

A thick thatched roof topped with purple iris flowers shelters this timber sheep pen in Kyoto, Japan, which has been designed by local architecture practice 2m26. Named Hitsujigoya, meaning sheep pen ...