California Gardening: What grows under redwood trees?, 1 by DaleTheGardener

DaleTheGardener wrote:
Native Iris do need some direct sun, they are beautiful and they really don't like summer water (well maybe once a month if your not in the fog belt).

Styrbing has an incredible collection of Douglas Iris, I use to collect the seed in early summer (I asked the lady in charge of the CA native section, she didn't mind. Once she told me that when she was deadheading she would leave the cut flower heads in the path hoping someone would take the seeds {that someone would be me!})

Here is a clump of hybrid yellow I saw in Pacific Heights, SF CA.