Fall planting: Our top 5 bulbs
Dutch iris
What they’re like: Growing 2 feet tall from rushlike foliage, Dutch irises are marked by clear, intense colors such as deep blue, purple, and
orange, usually with a yellow blotch on the falls (the petals that drape off the sides of each flower).
Our favorites: For blue, try ‘Professor Blaauw’; for magenta purple, ‘Purple Sensation’ (at left); for yellow, ‘Royal Yellow’.
How to display: Mass irises among low ornamental grasses for a meadow effect. Or mix them in pots with yellow violas. They grow in all but
the coldest parts of the West and naturalize even in mild climates.
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