Re: Re: CULT: iris health

Linda
Not quite sure what Linda meant,but to my mind, grooming entails constantly removing all dead and tatty leaves etc. I wouldn't consider that you are robbing your plants by trimming off the brown tips as once brown those parts of the leaves aren't contributing. However there are people who trim all their irises back to a 6" fan after blooming, This does rob the plant , in my opinion. 

Colleen Modra
Adelaide Hills
South Australia

colleen@impressiveirises.com.au
www.impressiveirises.com.au
----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Smith" <irisgrower@cableone.net> 
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: [iris] 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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