Rob's plants home garden plants wildlife seed photos plant sale journal topics plantlinks fun guestbook Iris xiphium

 

Common name Dutch iris Family iridaceae Life cycle perennial bulb Flowers various colors (mid-spring) Size 18" Light sun Cultural notes ordinary garden soil Amy bought a bag of Dutch iris bulbs one fall, and we forgot about it until it was late November. We didn't feel like spending much time on them at that time, so I just stuck them in holes dug in various garden areas and promptly forgot all about them. The following spring, we couldn't figure out what all these bulb plants were coming up (nearly pulled them. for fear they were a weed onion), and were delighted when they flowered, in colors you'd expect to find in at Babies-R-Us.

We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston.

About my plant portraits
PlantLinks to other web pages about Iris xiphium

I welcome comments about my web pages; feel free to use the form below to leave feedback about this particular page. For the benefit of other visitors to these pages, I will list any relevant comments you leave, and if appropriate, I will update my page to correct mis-information. Faced with an ever-increasing onslaught of spam, I'm forced to discard any comments including html markups. Please submit your comment as plain text. If you have a comment about the website as a whole, please leave it in my guestbook. If you have a question that needs a personal response, please e-mail me.