Re: just joined

I guess that I am just going to have to deal with the flowerbed as it is.  They did so well this year I don't want to disturb them.  The soil that they are in has manure in it and I am afraid if I move some of the flowers to my other flowerbeds that I won't have as good results.  The other ones don't have the manure in them.  I'm new to this gardening thing.  Today I left early this morning and came home to some very wilted flowers.  :-(  

On a good note, I think I figured out my digital camera.  I found the macro button!  So I think I can get some good pictures now.  Too bad the iris's are done.  Next year....
Dee
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Robert Miles 
  To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 8:38 PM
  Subject: Re: [iris-talk] just joined


  Dee,

  Welcome to the list.  It's not uncommon for irises
  to wait a year or two after planting before they
  start blooming.  And some don't bloom well, if at
  all, when they're overcrowded.

  Irises generally don't respond well to frequent
  disturbances at their roots.  Even moving them
  around once a year is too much for most varieties,
  although a few spread so fast that they need to
  be divided every year to keep them from getting
  overcrowded.

  You may have devoted too much of the available
  area to irises, and therefore have too little left for
  plants that look good at other times of the year.

  Or you may just need to choose taller plants for
  the areas intended to look good the rest of the
  year.  In other words, the problem with short
  rosebushes may disappear after they have had a
  year or two to grow taller.

  I was able to solve a rabbit problem in one garden
  easily by shutting all the gates in the chain link
  fence a previous owner had put around the garden
  and the back yard, and placing a few bricks at one
  gate which had developed gaps big enough for a
  rabbit to squeeze through.  Though if you had such
  a fence, you would probably would have tried this
  already.

  In another garden, no action was needed since the
  rabbit seemed more interested in a place to hide
  during the day than in eating the irises.  The rabbit
  arrived after the irises were large and probably
  somewhat tough, though.

  If I had a severe rabbit problem, I'd think about
  planting a border of very hot peppers around the
  garden next year.  One nibble of the leaves will
  convince almost any animal with fur that it's time
  to be elsewhere, except animals close enough
  to starvation to have little choice.  I wouldn't even
  limit my choice to peppers that I'd consider eating,
  or to peppers that would have time to mature
  before frost killed them.  This may not be a good
  idea if there are small children around, though.

  You may want to think about getting some
  reblooming irises - the kinds that can bloom
  more than once a year.

  Daylilies are about the same height as irises,
  and bloom at different times of the year.

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Dee" <dee@cheqnet.net>
  To: <iris-talk@yahoogroups.com>
  Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:06 PM
  Subject: [iris-talk] just joined


  > Hi.  I just joined this list because this is the first year that I have
  had a bed of iris's.  Last year I had a lot that were given to me and some
  that I bought and they didn't do much.  This year they were beautiful.  I
  have some with some brown spots on the leaves but not too many.  The flowers
  were huge on them.  :-)  I had taken the ones that were at my gramma's house
  after she passed on in October of 99 because they had never bloomed.  This
  year they did.  :-)  It was sort of like bringing her to life.  Anyway, now
  that they are done blooming I have this huge bed that does not look very
  nice.  Does anyone have any ideas on what to do with it now?
  > I have some roses in back of the bed but the iris plants are so large that
  I can barely see the roses and I'm hesitant to move the roses to the front
  because they are the only bushes that the rabbits have not eaten.  I love
  the iris's but I just dont' know what to do now.  The whole bed is a mess!
  > Thanks,
  > Dee
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