Customer Reviews

Tall Bearded Iris Pictorial Reference

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This is one of the best books on iris's I have seen. It is full of beautiful pictures, page after page. This is a must have for Iris lovers!. I want every flower I see!. I can't say how much I have enjoyed looking at the pictures and wishing spring was here to see the iris's in bloom. I know my garden will be increasing by leaps and bounds with a lot of new added editions. I have visited the author's garden, as she is local, and believe me the pictures are beautiful, but her gardens are totally breath taking.

Only the first few pages contain information. First page covers types of irises, second page tells how to read the book, third page covers planting and growing tall bearded iris. All the other pages are just alphabetically listed iris photos with a caption below each one detailing: hybridizer, year, bloom season and height. This pictorial guide is simply like another iris catalog.

This book has awesome photographs and is a wonderful reference book for anyone interested in growing tall bearded irises. I love it!!

While reading all these nice reviews about this book I am tempted to write my own opinion. So it is - this is the worse book about Irises I have ever seen. First, do not expect much information from this book. The book contains mostly pictures and pictures are the bad part of this book. Some of them are out of focus, some other have completely wrong light, many pictures are with gray, bad colors, etc. Finally, many pictures doesn't really show the structure of the flower, they show something that sometimes even doesn't look like a flower. In a few occasions I found also that text and the picture doesn't match (or the picture was so bad).

Any way, I am very disappointed. I lost some $$.

This picture book has the most pictures in it. It was nice to put a face to the name of the irises in this book. I was glad to see that this book did not contain any of the 92 irises that I have in my garden, which has given me new irises to lust over. My only complaint is that that this book only has about 300 pictures in it, and I want to see all of the 6000+ named bearded irises that are registered with the American Iris Society. I will keep searching.

This book was bought for my friend in South Africa who couldn't obtain it there. I was happy to get it for her as she is an avid iris grower. That aside, I was surprised by the lack of text, explanation, and overall verbage pertaining to irises. The photos are beautiful for the most part though some seemed a little out of focus to me, and that was disappointing. It is NOT an encyclopedia.....it IS a pictorial as the title states. That considered, it is what it is. Don't expect to learn much other than viewing pictures of some of the most beautiful iris available.

Great pictorial reference for the Iris Lover. No picture enhancement so it gives the true colour of the Iris. Many Iris listed with pictures. A must have for the Iris enthusiast.