Iris tectorum 'Album' 25/6 Restock the same love of standing

the same love of standing water

Few plants carry a story like the Franklin tree

dark green blades straight from the soil and holding strong form year round in conditions that defeat almost everything else

or a light trellis by a door where the hummingbirds can be watched at work

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Iris tectorum 'Album' 25/6 Restock the same love of standingThe horticulturist Scott Ogden, in Garden Bulbs for the South, sets the scene: the Japanese roof iris, Iris tectorum, is famous in the native country as a flower for planting on sod roofs, just as houseleeks are used on the cottage roofs of France. In gardens the silky green fans of leaves form large patches, a fine subject for the foreground of a shady border, and in April the ruffled, orchid like blooms appear among the handsome leaves. In the