Re: Re: SIB: SIBERIAN IRIS

I, too, was unable to dig/divide/transplant my Siberians last fall, but I'm not at all concerned.  In fact, I have often done this in the spring and with uniformly good results.  I've never lost one, never had it fail to bloom (often in the same season), and I find it much easier to do this when all the foliage hasn't grown up yet.  Just have to keep those roots damp, as always.  I have dug them this way, divided, and then taken the divisions to my club meeting to give away the extras, and that has worked for the people who got them, too.  I have also gotten them in the mail in the spring and not lost the plants.   I don't think it is conventional wisdom to be doing this in spring, but it works for me, and I prefer it.  They get a whole season to put down their roots for winter, too.  As to beardeds, I only know that I've seen people move them in the spring because they were moving to another house and didn't want to leave their iris behind.  Moved at this time they don't always bloom on schedule--depends on how much growth they've already put on, I suppose--but sometimes they even bloom that same spring.  Of course, this was with older varieties and the people who did it weren't irisarians, so probably if we tried it with our expensive babies, the fancy and costly hybrids, they wouldn't co-operate!  :-)
Arnold

Arnold & Carol Koekkoek
38 7th Street, NE
Sioux Center, IA 51250
e-mail  koekkoek@mtcnet.net


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