Iris ensata 'Miyoshino,' a Japanese iris, starting to open.
The Japanese irises are one of the last irises to begin bloooming. They follow a long parade of other irises that open earlier in the year. The winter-blooming Iris unguicularis will have flowered during mild weather in January and February. The irises that grow from bulbs, such as Iris reticulata, were flowering in February and March. The bearded irises, whose roots grow from a creeping rhizome, bloomed a bit later, with the Siberian irises coming next. And then, finally the Japanese irises starting in late spring and continuing on into early summer.
If you were to grow a wide assortment of all different types of irises, you could easily have five or six months of continuous bloom. |
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