{"id":9914,"date":"2016-08-29T03:36:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T02:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9914"},"modified":"2016-08-15T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T14:52:10","slug":"iris-from-bulbs-as-opposed-to-rhizomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/iris-from-bulbs-as-opposed-to-rhizomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Iris from Bulbs as Opposed to Rhizomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"George Iris by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4458881187\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4069\/4458881187_db8cb6338f.jpg\" alt=\"George Iris\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dutch Iris or Iris reticulata are small bulbs for pots or rockeries.<br \/>\nFlag Iris are big and blousy and grow from Rhizomes.<br \/>\nThese pictures of different Iris are grown from bulbs.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Iris B by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4459705168\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4063\/4459705168_4547ff3610.jpg\" alt=\"Iris B\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reticulata group produce narrow, triangular leaves and a single, slender bloom per bulb.<br \/>\nFlowers are principally in shades of blue and purple, often with an attractively contrasting orange or yellow mark at the top of the fall.<br \/>\nIris histrioides &#8216;George&#8217; is proving to be a good Iris shown top.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Iris Frans Hals by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4706744506\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4048\/4706744506_7ce78b0190.jpg\" alt=\"Iris Frans Hals\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Iris Franz Hals above or you could try the unusual Iris &#8216;Katharine Hodgkin&#8217; below. Its exotic colouring of cream overlaid with a blend of light yellow and greeny-blue comes from its parents.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Iris joker by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4459705500\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4004\/4459705500_a9a3ebc751.jpg\" alt=\"Iris joker\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read our other article <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/tips-for-growing-spring-iris-from-bulbs\/\">Tips for Growing Spring Iris<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch Iris or Iris reticulata are small bulbs for pots or rockeries. Flag Iris are big and blousy and grow from Rhizomes. These pictures of different Iris are grown from bulbs. The reticulata group produce narrow, triangular leaves and a single, slender bloom per bulb. Flowers are principally in shades of blue and purple, often with an attractively contrasting orange or yellow mark at the top of the fall. Iris histrioides &#8216;George&#8217; is proving to be a good Iris shown&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/iris-from-bulbs-as-opposed-to-rhizomes\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/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-9914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914","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=9914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}