QUESTION: I'm trying to locate a white iris that I remember growing in old New Orleans gardens in the 1950s. It was fairly short with broad leaves and beautiful white flowers. I do not remember seeing ...

A white heirloom iris is the heart of today’s column. It is a sentimental tale that makes a fitting story for Mother’s Day. Some of the nicest people live in Texas and many of those are Lubbock ...

The bearded irises used to seem to me too regal and stately to love, in fact, rather pompous. (There are other estimable kinds of irises, but the tall bearded are the most familiar and the most ...

Tall bearded irises are among the most dramatically beautiful flowers in our gardens, but they are not carefree. Ignore them for three or four years and the quantity of blooms will peter out, the iris ...

Whenever I indulge in guacamole made from a Hass avocado, I am reminded of its unlikely origin. In 1926, Rudolph Hass, a mail carrier in Pasadena, planted three avocado seeds in his avocado grove in ...