From Timber
Press comes another informative and lavishly illustrated gardening book. Norris
has been obsessed with iris since a very young age; as a boy, his idea of a
great time was to go and buy fancy iris rhizomes. That passion has led him to
breeding his own iris, and buying and moving an existing iris nursery that was
going out of business to the family farm in Iowa (it’s now run by the Norris family). This
child prodigy of horticulture is the youngest person to win Iowa State
Horticulture Society’s Presidential Citation, Award of Merit and Honor Award.
He has ten years experience running a nursery, and he’s only 25. He knows his
stuff, and I was happy to find he’d shared that knowledge in this book.
The Guide
describes the various types of bearded iris, tells you how to grow them, tells
you what pests and diseases afflict them (which doesn’t happen very often), and
even how to hybridize your own iris. The back half of the book is an
encyclopedia of his recommendations of the best of the six classes of bearded
iris. Many of these iris I had never heard of; some are very new and exciting.
The pictures are stunning; this book has the beautiful photos of a coffee table
book but in a regular book size that makes reading it a lot easier. While this
is a beginner’s guide, there will be things in it to inspire even long time
iris growers.
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