NOUN
- any of numerous wild or cultivated irises with hairlike structures on the falls (the drooping sepals)
How To Use bearded iris In A Sentence
- And remember, with bearded irises, you will have three times as many to play with when you divide them a few years down the line. Times, Sunday Times
- We recommend that you follow these five golden rules for success with bearded irises.
- I've always had a thing about bearded irises. Times, Sunday Times
- I was accustomed to bearded iris that would rot if it so much as rained for three days straight.
- The dark-leafed weigela bushes are coated with mauve flowers, the peonies are spewing their amazing perfume, pink petals weigh down the 10-foot-tall beauty bush by the fence and the bearded irises with their unreal purple and blue blooms seem like visitors from another world. Politically Incorrect Gardening
- Originally most bearded irises had droopy falls (the petals that hang down).
- That was the beginning of a short but torrid affair with hybrid bearded irises. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
- May is one of my favourite times of the year as it is the month when bearded irises begin to emerge. Times, Sunday Times
- Now is the best time to set out rhizomes of bearded irises.
- An old classic June bloomer in cooler areas, ‘Lord of June’ tall bearded iris, may open in April or May in the South.
