Floral
Three Plants I Used to Confuse Until I Learned About Irises
For a long time, I thought every plant with long, sword-shaped leaves and colorful flowers belonged to the same group. Whenever I visited botanical gardens or public parks in spring, I admired the flowers without paying much attention to their names. To me, they were all simply “irises.” It wasn’t until I started reading more about garden plants and comparing different varieties that I realized how different they actually are. Some irises love dry, sunny gardens. Others thrive beside ponds. Then there’s Sweet Flag—a plant that many people mistake for an iris even though it belongs to an entirely different plant family. Learning these differences completely changed the way I look at these beautiful plants, and it also made choosing