{"id":13444,"date":"2015-05-02T01:15:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T08:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13444"},"modified":"2024-02-10T16:15:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T16:15:21","slug":"growing-iris-confusa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-iris-confusa\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Iris Confusa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Bamboo iris (Iris confusa) by Kew on Flickr, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kewonflickr\/7141861647\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8148\/7141861647_d2d65b46f6.jpg\" alt=\"Bamboo iris (Iris confusa)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Iris confusa is a delicate iris from south-central or Western China. The photograph above shows Iris confusa in the temperate house at Kew where the flowers pay closer inspection.<\/p>\n<h3>Description of Iris Confusa<\/h3>\n<p>Iris confusa is an evergreen, upright perennial with fans of mid-green, sword-like leaves.<br \/>\nThe plant&#8217;s broad, shiny leaves are attached to the ends of bamboo-like stems up to 2 feet long.<br \/>\nThe bamboo-like stems will eventually lie flat and root, thus forming good clumps.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Iris Confusa by Just chaos, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7326810@N08\/2388831756\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2311\/2388831756_cf15f9d33b.jpg\" alt=\"Iris Confusa\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Iris confusa Flowers<\/h3>\n<p>The Iris confusa flower in spring and early summer April &#8211; June.<br \/>\nEach flower is lavender to pale blue or near white with yellow or purple spots.<br \/>\nIris confusa &#8216;Martyn Rix&#8217; is a popular variety of Crested Iris with white flowers, yellow crests and purple dots on the falls.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bamboo iris (Iris confusa) by Kew on Flickr, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kewonflickr\/6995773912\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7219\/6995773912_069e108494.jpg\" alt=\"Bamboo iris (Iris confusa)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Photo Credits<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bamboo iris (Iris confusa) by Kew on Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0<br \/>\nIris Confusa by Just chaos CC BY 2.0<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=iris+confusa&amp;hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;hs=pBu&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;prmd=imvns&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&amp;biw=1608&amp;bih=829&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;tbm=isch&amp;source=og&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi&amp;ei=Vt_BT5rbDKi80QX70s2YCg\">Google images <\/a>for Iris confusa (and odd Iris)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iris confusa is an evergreen, upright perennial with fans of mid-green, sword-like leaves and pale blue flowers.<br \/>\nThe plant&#8217;s broad, shiny leaves are attached to the ends of bamboo-like stems up to 2 feet long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21403,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13444\/revisions\/21403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}