Tom's groundcover/mulch question

In reply to Tom:
In New Mexico I used to plant lots of stuff around my irises and never had
any problems.  I had 4o'clocks, thyme and cosmos mainly, with some dianthus.
I just watered the whole lot and left them alone.

I have planted dianthus and snapdragons around my irises here in east Texas,
both grow as perennials here with little care.  I will wait and see if I
have any problems.  At the last house, the grass got back in the small iris
bed and was thick and hearty... the irises bloom as we speak.  I put black
ground cloth around them to try to stop the grass, it just grew anyway.  I
have NOT found any rot here, I do find old rhisomes with very, very tiny
holes in them.  I dont know how tiny the borer holes are but these are about
1/64".   I usually just throw those rhisomes out and use others.

Time will tell with the new beds.

Sharon A. Ruck,  the herb and Harley Davidson lady
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