Garden Express Offer - Bearded Iris
The Bearded Iris grows from a rhizome, a tuberous base from which the new green shoots and divisions grow. After several years in the one spot, one plant could have up to 6 or 8 new rhizomes that can be lifted and divided in autumn and early ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Digging Deeper - Tall Bearded Iris
Tall bearded Irises are evergreen herbaceous plants with swollen rhizomes that develop at the surface, as opposed to the bulbous Iris species that seasonally produce dormant bulbs. The tall bearded varieties and cultivars flower from Mid ... [... more]
Green Fingers AU |
Eyes explained
The eye is the organ of vision. Images pass through the eye to the back of the eye or retina. Information is carried to the brain via the optic nerve. Other parts of the eye include the cornea, iris, pupil, lens and sclera. Common problems of the ... [... more]
Better Health |
Satin Bowerbird
Satin Bowerbirds are medium-sized (27cm - 33cm) birds. The adult male has striking glossy blue-black plumage, a pale bluish white bill and a violet-blue iris. Younger males and females are similar in colour to each other, and are collectively ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Magpie-lark
The Magpie-lark is distinctively marked in black and white. The thin whitish bill and pale iris separate it from other similarly coloured species. The adult male Magpie-lark has a white eyebrow and black face, while the female has an all-white ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Iris R. Dart
Iris Rainer Dart is the author of eight novels, including the much-beloved New York Times bestseller Beaches. The mother of two children, she lives in California with her husband. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Wild Iris Garden
This week Dean visited the garden of Fred and Kathy Fraser, and they are absolutely nuts about Iris. The backyard is more of a production nursery than a garden with hundreds of iris varieties in all shapes, sizes and colours to choose from. The ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Megan Gallagher
Iris Johansen is a master storyteller whose thrilling novels go straight to the heart of suspense. Now the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Long After Midnight and The Ugly Duckling returns with her most nerve-shattering novel ... [... more]
Random House |
Eva Hoffman
An only child, Iris lives with her mother in a rambling house in a small midwestern town. Her mother is everything: provider, confidante, friend. But at seventeen, Iris begins to question their nearly symbiotic relationship-and the noticeable ... [... more]
Random House |
Lisa Desimini
Tundra's Lisa Desimini is a graduate from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Since then she has written and illustrated over thirty books for children. Her award-winning books include Iris finds out that having a stomach virus is ... [... more]
Random House |
Iris Von Finckenstein
As a child in German-occupied Poland, Roma Ligocka was known for the bright strawberry-red coat she wore against a tide of gathering darkness. Fifty years later, Roma, an artist living in Germany, attended a screening of Steven Spielberg's ... [... more]
Random House |
Iris Johansen
Iris Johansen, who has more than twenty-seven million copies of her books in print, has won many awards for her achievements in writing. The bestselling author of Eve Duncan has turned down the job twice already. Her skill and devotion in ... [... more]
Random House |
