CULT: Deadheading


Karima,
     You can remove spent flowers anytime as long as you "surgically"
remove the individual  spent blooms.  Once a stalk has finished blooming,
then cut back the stalk.  On a TB Iris, the spent stalk should be cut off
at the base.  With Siberian Irises, I cut the stalks off right at the point
where it comes out of the leaves of the fan it came from.  

Mark A. Cook
macook@iglou.com
Lexington, KY     USDA Zone 5/6        Sunset Zone 35	



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