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Posted: Jun/23/2005 12:26 PM PST
I recently inherited some property and at the front of the house there are 4 different flower beds. One of them is COMPLETELY out of hand! There are two huge groups of irises. These flowers have not probably EVER been separated, grandma never cut them back or anything. So underneath this years growth is a bunch of old dead foliage. I have cut back all of the foliage and you can see all of the bulbs(tubers, roots, whatever irises have) sticking out of the ground. I know that irises like it just barely under the soil. I plan to dig up ALL of the irises in this area and move them to another location entirely. I plan to buy some of those landscaping "castle wall" type bricks and make a flower bed for them. I will have to build up the dirt a little to put these bricks down and raise the ground enough to be able to work in it. So my questions are: Do I need to raise the ground any, really? (I plan to put at least two rows of the bricks around) Do I just take a shovel and start digging them up? How do I know what to discard and what to keep? How long after I dig them up do I need to have them replanted? How deep should I plant them? (I think they have never frozen before b/c Grandma left all the dead foliage there on top of them to protect them. SHould you be able to see part of the "bulb part"?) How long does it take to get irises to bloom again? Anything else you think I should know? |
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Posted: Jul/12/2005 8:02 PM PST
keeping my fingers crossed for you too Nyree, loosing them would be too sad. |
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Posted: Jul/12/2005 5:44 PM PST
Keeping fingers crossed for you , Nyree ! |
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Posted: Jul/06/2005 9:39 PM PST
beautiful,zuki!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!! what are the pretty little blue flowers? Thanks for all the info, I do have a big job this year with quite a few of my iris' Blessings, Lily |
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Posted: Jul/03/2005 3:58 PM PST
you're welcome, sweetie . |
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Posted: Jul/10/2005 7:48 PM PST
Heaven forbid we run out of jobs in the garden ! Always want to have 'SomethingElse' to be done.! LOL |
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Posted: Jul/10/2005 7:40 PM PST
[COLOR=Indigo]that is what I am hoping for too, that dividing will help the others to bloom and when the rest start to bloom there will be more colors there.  I was hoping ot know the colors before i divided and moved so that I would be able to be sure to mix the colors up instead of having so many one color in a group. But hey, I love themall any way and that will give me something to do next time.  [/COLOR]
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Posted: Jul/03/2005 11:54 AM PST
beautiful zuki!!!! thanks for all the info on them too, |
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Posted: Jul/10/2005 7:17 PM PST
Quote: Originally posted by ForGetMeNot [COLOR=Indigo]absolutely gorgeous zuki! at our new home there is about maybe 100 iris in one area but I only got about 6 blooms! 1 white and the rest were pink. I can hardly wait to add to it and mix things up a bit. I have moved some already, looks like I should have waited until August, but they quit blooming so I thought it was okay. so far the ones I moved are looking better then the ones I didn't move. Hope they last through the winter. okay--Question--As I Mentioned I want to add more colors, when is the best time to do this? Thanks for all the info![/COLOR] It's not really necessary to wait til August, as long as you put them right back in the soil. When you buy irises from the catalogs, they usually ship from late July thru September. But those poor babies are out of the dirt for a long time. If you put them right back in the soil, and water them they will grab hold and continue growing. The ones I transplanted last fall I did too late; and that's why I got no blooms on them this year. It was late October,early November, and they still did not Die. IDEAL time for putting in new ones is whenever you get them. If ordering from a catalog, they will ship them when they think it is right for your zone. And then you put them in immediately. (like I said, late July thru Sept., PS...who knows how many other colors there are in your 'collection' that did not bloom? If you divide the large non-blooming clumps , you may find you have LOTS of different colors that just weren't "showing" for you ! Wouldn't that be a BONANZA !!! Here's hoping. |
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Posted: Jul/03/2005 3:57 AM PST
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