Re: Dividing Iris
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- Subject: Re: Dividing Iris
- From: M*@fin.gc.ca (Mark, Maureen)
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 09:55:41 -0600 (MDT)
I generally give them at least two weeks and most six weeks after bloom. I=
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cut the fans because I also trim the roots.
Maureen
mark.maureen@fin.gc.ca
Ottawa (zone 4) -- will be digging SDBs in about two weeks (four weeks afte=
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bloom)
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From: lynn.woosley
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: Dividing Iris
Date: Tuesday, July 8, 1997 11:33
On Tue, 8 Jul 1997 09:11:02 -0600 (MDT) KaIiedra@aol.com writes:
>
>Fatten them up more? never paid much attention to the rhizome size.
>Most
>of these plants got dug up late in spring '96 in an attempt to save
>them form
>being bulldozed so since they didn't flower they've grown like wild.
> Is it necessary to
>cut the
>fan back?
>
>Kali~
>
Kali, I am already separating and transplanting here, and have been for
about a month. Granted the first couple of weeks were, like your spring
'96 efforts, to rescue them from a bulldozer, but I would have started
witht the TB in mid- to- late June anyway. The LA and JI will be later
this summer.
Like you, I've never paid much attention to rhizome size (unless it was
really puny), just the number of increases on a mother rhizome. I
generally do not cut back my leaves unless the rhizomes are going to be
out of the ground for a while.
Lynn Woosley
Marietta, GA
USDA Zone 8
