Japanese or bearded?

Posted 5/16/09

The Japanese iris, iris ensata (kaempferi), is the reason for the Iris Festival. The festival's been around since 1940, and Swan Lake-Iris Gardens since the '20s, so how come we have such a hard time telling kaempferi from other irises? And by we, …

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