Iris japonica prophouse oval and gray-green

oval and gray-green

Coral bean thrives in rich

'Buttercream' carries clusters of cool

and the Japanese reading of their narrow foliage earned them the name bamboo-leaf oak

the blue-green foliage and shreddy bark read well up close

Iris japonica prophouse oval and gray-greenA small crested iris with the carriage of an orchid and a quietly extraordinary biography. Iris japonica was named by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1794. Thunberg was a protege of Linnaeus and one of the only Western botanists allowed into Japan during the country's closed period, from 1775 to 1778, so much of what he brought back is, in a real sense, the first documented record of Japanese flora in Western science. The species had already reached Europe two