Good afternoon, my reader. The name of these bright and spectacular colors is translated from ancient Greek as "rainbow". Irises are known for a variety of colors and a large number of species and varieties, so they fully correspond to their name. Plants are unpretentious and grow in almost every area. From childhood they are familiar to us as orcas or cockerels.
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In the wild, irises bloom in spring and fade quickly. Until autumn, only spectacular elongated xiphoid leaves remain.
A variety of varieties of modern selection allows you to admire the riot of colors until mid-summer. Many varieties and hybrids continue to bloom for up to two months.
Irises of all types growing in temperate climates have been domesticated. Today you can buy varieties and hybrids based on iris water, iris Germanic, Siberian, iris pale or bearded.
The variety of species made it possible to develop varieties for every taste: with a monochromatic or variegated color, different colors and shades, fragrant and odorless. Irises can be found in gardens in almost all regions.
Ideas for using irises in landscape design
- Planting several varieties with different flowering periods will preserve the elegant look of the flower bed until mid-summer.
After flowering, irises look no less impressive thanks to unusual leaves with longitudinal stripes of white, yellow or light green colors. The varieties bred on the basis of marsh iris look like a tall bush with blue leaves. Such varieties are planted not only for flowers, but also as ornamental plants.
- Irises love moisture, so they are used to decorate ponds. Plants can be planted both on the shore and in shallow water such as Yellow Iris.
Irises are useful if there are shady and humid areas on the site. In such corners, you can arrange a flower bed with marsh plants. Along with several varieties of irises, sedge, cottonwood and other grasses growing near the water can be planted in a swamp flower bed. - For the design of an alpine slide, early varieties of irises are suitable: sharp-pointed, thin-leaved. These are undersized species (up to 40 cm), they will not spoil the idea of an alpine landscape. In terms of flowering time, they occupy a niche between primroses and summer flowers. Growing irises will ensure continuous flowering of the flower bed in the spring.
These varieties do not require abundant watering, since after flowering they have a dormant period. - You can create a flower bed with perennials, consisting of varieties of irises with different flowering periods. Plant the plants in groups depending on the color of the flowers or the shape of the petals.
You can decorate iris bushes with gypsophila, alissum. To make the flower bed attractive in the second half of summer, you can plant lilies, daylilies, delphiniums. - Irises can be used solo to decorate the lawn. For this purpose, you should choose varieties with large leaves, tall stems and brightly colored flowers. Such a bush will decorate the lawn after flowering.
If the lawn is decorated with tall meadow grasses, then it will be appropriate to use undersized varieties, which after flowering will be invisible in the total mass of greenery. - The use of irises in mixborders. Such a flower bed involves the planting of plants of different heights and flowering times. The variety of iris varieties allows you to choose plants for any florist's idea.
It is very easy to propagate iris bushes. This should be done after the end of flowering, when the plants are dormant. The one-year-old shoot, along with the leaves and root, should be cut off from the mother's rhizome and planted in the desired location. The young plant will bloom next season.
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