Re: CULT: How do you feel about interspersing other plants in your iris beds?

I am always amused by the idea that Irises are supposed to be garden plants. It seems most people grow them in collections ( corn rows) which is fine. I am a collector myself and this is the easiest way to maintain a large collection. But that is not what I call a garden. If we never grow any other plants with Irises how can we call them garden plants and how can they be judged as such?

Matbeach1@aol.com wrote:I have just returned from a Christmas trip to my folks and noticed that a 
long new iris bed I planted for them a few months ago is now full of little 
Shasta daisy and rudibeckia (sp?) seedlings. I started plucking them out, but my 
mother asked me to stop saying that she thought that the daisies would 
complement the iris nicely when they bloomed. I told her I thought that these small 
plants (and they are ALL over) would compete for nutrients and that we should at 
least pull some and leave others if she felt this way. 

I would be interested in knowing from you all if you plant other annuals or 
perenniels among your irises and if so, what, and how closely to the irises. I 
have two new beds of my own here, and they are "clean as a whistle" -- just 
iris, period.

Thanks,
Mike in Myrtle Beach, SC, Zone 8

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