John Hoyland, the gardens advisor at Glyndebourne, on how irises with ‘elegance and delicacy’ are a constant joy.
Wandering around the garden this week and seeing the tatty, browning and slug-ravaged foliage of the bearded irises, it is difficult to remember how thrilling they were only a few short months ago. The heatwave of last summer had baked the plants’ rhizomes, so that May and June of this year saw a dazzling display of iris flowers.
Irises have always had a…
