Re: I. japonica / Irid photos

 

It looks strikingly like a cristata flower. Anyone have tips for growing japonica as a houseplant? Two clones that I potted up in the fall have only just come into growth after some dieback in late fall (possibly from too little water?). What's their growth cycle supposed to be like? Small offsets just below the surface, produced abundantly in the fall, are green but not showing any growth, while the fans that are not flowering size are growing rapidly. The largest fan, which I took to be blooming size, shows no sign of new leaf growth.

Sean Z
Zone 6a
SE Michigan
(where the japonica divisions I planted outside in the fall are buried under half a meter of snow)

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