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 ...

No kaleidoscope of color can inject as much elegance or grace into a garden as white Iris flowers do. Symbolizing purity and ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Q: My Japanese irises bloomed beautifully the first two seasons, but haven’t bloomed for the last couple of years. Any suggestions? A: The flowers on Japanese iris (Iris ensata) are among the most ...

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. — Summer is here, and ushering it in are the Portland Japanese Garden's iris flowers! The Garden announced that the irises have started to bloom this week, just in time for the warmer ...

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 ...

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 ...