Meeting people who knew Cedric Morris, in sitting rooms and ... Others were much harder. • How to grow bearded Irises Sarah has read every iris yearbook from 1935 to 1966. Her search for Morris ...

In 1945 Cedric Morris bred the first British species of pink bearded iris. He had already achieved considerable fame as a modernist painter, twice exhibiting at the Venice Biennale in the late ...

In his Suffolk garden he grew around 1,000 new iris seedlings ... West planted bearded irises grown by Morris at Sissinghurst; Beth Chatto later grew Narcissus minor 'Cedric Morris’ commercially ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Cedric Morris was prolific both as an artist and as a gardener, painting as many flowers, landscapes and ...

Cambridge-based auctioneers Cheffins will auction off work from Cedric Morris, who founded the East Anglian School of Painting & Drawing in Essex before moving it to Suffolk. The artwork ...

Cambridge-based auctioneers Cheffins said the Cedric Morris artwork, which had never been sold on the open market before, fetched £162,500 and showed the artist's "continued popularity".