Add classic elegance to your garden with Iris germanica 'Renown', a reblooming bearded iris prized for ruffled, oyster-white blooms with a soft yellow throat and a light, sweet fragrance.
Plant your rhizomes in a sunny, well-drained spot for the best flowering. Full sun is ideal, but this iris will also tolerate partial shade, especially where summers are hot. Keep rhizomes close to the soil surface and avoid burying them deeply so they stay warm and dry between waterings.
At maturity, 'Renown' typically reaches about 30-40 inches tall and makes an upright clump of sword-like foliage that provides strong vertical texture even when not in bloom. Deadhead spent blooms to keep the planting neat and to encourage additional flowering on reblooming types.
Water regularly during establishment, then irrigate only during extended dry spells. Divide and replant rhizomes every few years (often mid to late summer) to prevent overcrowding and to keep blooms coming strong year after year.