Property News · March 3, 2023

Dwarf irises bring colour and glamour to the start of spring


If the snowdrop is a Victorian nightie, an iris is a cocktail dress that offers a dollop of pizzazz on a colourless March morningEvery year, it’s the same: I am caught out by the violet flash of Iris reticulata and it makes my day. Being the first flowers of the year to bloom, snowdrops get a lot of hoo-ha, but irises offer a spangly cocktail dress to the Galanthus’s fey Victorian nightdress: bolder, showier and sometimes in leopard-print shoes.From unprepossessing little bulbs – not unlike a fat, hairy clove of garlic – these miniatures arrive in the depths of nearly spring. I’ve grown them since I started experimenting with gardening on a north-facing London balcony nearly a decade ago, and they’re the one plant I’ve unfailingly grown every year since. They sum up everything I love about gardening: beauty, surprise, resilience and sweet anticipation – a dollop of wonder on an otherwise ordinary March morning. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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