Walking iris is a good-looking, generous group of plants. Add one to the garden and count the returns as new plants form on the flower stems. The most familiar and namesake of the genus, Neomarica.

Growth habit: An upright evergreen, perennial, bulblike plant with foliage originating from near the soil line. This is an iris relative with swordlike foliage that grows to 30 inches tall and 11/2 ...

Walking irises also are planted into the landscape, where they form nice colonies in shady beds. When grown in the garden, the flower stems with proliferations eventually bend over from the weight of ...

One of the oldest and best-known perennials in the home landscape is the bearded iris, sometimes called a German iris or a flag. But the genus Iris contains almost 300 species, and many irises have ...