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Iris purdyi hybridizes with I. bracteata, I. chrysophylla, I. douglasiana, I. innominata, I. macrosiphon, I. tenax, and I. tenuissima. It is rare in its unhybridized form. [4] The cross with I. tenax, called "Iota", was made by the Englishman William Dykes, and was the first Californian Iris to win a Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit ...
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in California is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Name
The 120-foot diameter enclosed garden is part of a 12-acre (4.9 ha) habitat in Kit Carson Park's Iris Sankey Arboretum, and was opened to the public on October 26, 2003. [2] The sculpture garden is only open a few days each week, based on the availability of docents, and is closed during rainy weather and for 24–48 hours afterwards.
Northern and Central California and southern Oregon Iris fernaldii R.C.Foster – Fernald's iris: Santa Cruz Mountains, and surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area. Iris hartwegii Baker – Hartweg's iris, rainbow iris, Sierra iris: California Iris innominata L.F.Hend. – Del Norte iris: southern Oregon, and California Iris macrosiphon Torr ...
Gardens in California — including the history of gardening and garden design in the state. Subcategories. This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 ...
Ganna Walska Lotusland, also known as Lotusland, is a non-profit botanical garden located in Montecito, near Santa Barbara, California, United States. The (15 ha / 37 acres) [1] garden is the historic estate of Madame Ganna Walska. Lotusland is home to 3,500 different plants. [2]
The founding of the AIS was prompted by the growing popularity of irises as garden plants in America, spurred in part by an award-winning exhibit of iris cultivars at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, in part by William Rickatson Dykes' landmark 1913 book The Genus Iris, and in part by a small flood of articles in popular magazines like Country Life.
Iris douglasiana, the Douglas iris, is a common wildflower of the coastal regions of Northern and Central California and southern Oregon in the United States. [2] It grows mainly at lower elevations, below 100 meters (330 ft), though it is occasionally found at heights of up to 1,000 meters (3,300 ft).