Re: Re: CULT: iris health

 Linda,

You mentioned a bit back that she grooms her iris.  What exactly does she
do?
Or what do you mean by grooming.?

The reason I ask, there seems to be 2 schools of thought in my region about
trimmings etc.

For me, since I can't stand brown tips I remove the offending leaves or trim
it. Others tell me I'm robbing the plant of it's process.

Also, I remove or trim some b/c I like to grow plants between my iris in
summer, I will sometimes cut back any leaf that is drooping and are crossing


As you know, I try to keep things in a diagonal instead of the circle iris
want to grow in. So I move and divide iris a lot. They seem to love the
attention. My objected is to have a few blooms of many various kinds, rather
than large clumps of same color.  If I had the space I'd certainly let them
expand more, but I don't, so rather than just have a few varieties, this is
the only way I've figured out to have more types.

I have a very small yard so I can do this sort of thing now. I'm just
looking for that rainbow effect in the spring. Life long project. So keeps
me busy.


Linda in CW AZ
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From: Linda Mann
Date: 07/13/07 16:10:15

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