Re: Yearly cutting back
- Subject: Re: Yearly cutting back
- From: p*
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 06:16:15 -0000
Pam,
It's my understanding that you do cut off the stalk (unless you've
set a pod on it) but cut the leaves back only once they've turned
brown and will snap off the rhizome with a quick jerk backwards from
the cut stalk. The leaves continue to feed the rhizome, so should be
left on till they die.
Is this not accurate, others?
Patricia Brooks
Whidbey Island, WA
--- In iris-talk@y..., "Doris Elevier" <doris934@h...> wrote:
> Hi Pam:
> Nope. . don't cut the foliage back. That doesn't make Iris
bloom! Best
> thing you can do to insure blooms next year is to water during the
hot
> summer (you didn't say where you are), feed them, (I use fish
emulsion -
> there are other fertilizers that others use. . ) and keep your beds
clean.
>
> Doris Elevier
> USDA zone 7 Sunset 11
> El Paso, TX
>
> To: <iris-talk@y...>
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 4:47 PM
> Subject: [iris-talk] Yearly cutting back
>
>
> > I am extremely new to this gardening thing...but in one year I
have
> > invested quite a bit of time establishing a perennial garden with
> > some color for every season. I am trying to make sure everything
> > blooms again next year. So I was wondering when I cut back the
> > irises to 8" stalks so they bloom again next year?
> >
> >
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