Iris flowers are seen in full bloom at Horikiri Shobu-en (Iris Garden) in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on June 12, 2021. Six-thousand iris plants consisting of some 200 varieties, including Kumo-isho ...

Irises blanket a garden in purple at Hayamizu Park in Miyakonojo, Miyazaki Prefecture, on April 18, 2021. Some 420,000 flowers consisting of 28,000 iris plants showed the first signs of blossoming ...

Creating a Zen garden is a wonderful way to cultivate a peaceful and serene space in your backyard. Japanese gardens are renowned for their tranquility, elegance, and harmony with nature.

“Those who have time for drama are not gardening enough.” Maybe it is because Iris was my mom’s name that it’s been a goal to create an iris garden in honor of her. Maybe it’s because the flower has ...

There is nothing to equal the Festival of the Fifth Month, when the scents of the iris and sagebrush mingle so charmingly. The children are proud of themselves and keep looking at the flowers on their ...

When people mention going to Japan for hanami (flower-watching in Japanese), one would usually think of sakura or cherry blossoms. But there are also other equally beautiful flowers that bloom ...

Today, Horikiri is a district in downtown Tokyo, but it was a hamlet on the fringe of the city in 1857 when Hiroshige made it the subject of one of his ‘One Hundred Famous Views of Edo’ series. Aptly ...

When most people think of an iris, bearded iris often come to mind. Bearded iris are tall, regal and beautiful and have been around for a long time. The Rev. Everett Lineberger has planted them around ...

A thick thatched roof topped with purple iris flowers shelters this timber sheep pen in Kyoto, Japan, which has been designed by local architecture practice 2m26. Named Hitsujigoya, meaning sheep pen ...