CULT- Beverly Sills recovering from a stab wound, prognosis iffy

I was weeding my iris bed the other week, using my favorite garden 
tool the Garden Claw.  Unfortunately I got a bit carried away and the 
Beverly Sills rhizome took a hit right in the middle.  Big hole, 15 
calibre anyway.

Since then she's faded fast.  Went from one of the smallest, poorest 
looking clumps in the garden to a stringy pile of dry yellow leaves.

So, I plucked her out of the ground, she has no seed pods so she's 
'expendable' and cut off about six new increases.  (Not bad since she 
has only been in the ground for a year, or am I smokin?) Now I have 
these soaking in clorox water which I have heard mentioned several 
times on here and am planning to plop one or two of them back down in 
the empty hole.  Is that all good as far as it goes?

There were two other increases, well I guess anyway, one of them has 
about a half an inch of fan which it looked like I had whacked when I 
was cutting off another rhizome, and the other is just a round bulby 
thing with the barest suggestions of actuall green growth on it.  
These I have set up on the window ledge in yogurt cups with their 
roots just about a 1/2" deep in water. I put toothpicks in their 
sides like my gramma used to do with potatoes.  Anybody ever tried to 
save these kind of babies?


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