Dreamer~ Life is good
This is one flower
I’ve never planted. I have a few friends that have a beautiful display every spring…. this would be a nice addition to my yard~
It certainly would be Dreamer~
... I find them a very elegant and regal flower, towering over all others, as if to say “look at me!!!!”
joie de vivre is celebrating 6 years on this site
Irises are very easy
You plant them and they come up every year. Every 3-4 years you have to divide them.
I got about a dozen from a friend who did this division. When I dug them up a few years later, I had over a hundred. I gave most of those away, and replanted just the strongest corms I had left.
I divided them again last year, and ended up with nearly two hundred. One more time, I planted just the strongest, a few in a different flower bed, and gave away the rest to someone with acreage.
Tomorrow, I’m working with a youth group who are going to dig up and divide an elderly lady’s iris bed. She’s 89, still enjoys puttering around her garden – but digging up all those iris corms is just too much for her. The Youth Volunteer Corps is going to help her out. I’m not sure what we’ll do with all those corms – if I thought they’d store, I’d force them up in a pot for our auction in the spring!
