: Digging and Planting in the Spring
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- Subject: : Digging and Planting in the Spring
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 07:46:19 -0700 (MST)
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Larry Doucette wrote:
>
> However, how many of you have had success with moving rhizomes (bearded) in
> the SPRING ? Knowing they may not bloom the first year - but how any of you
> have actually tried digging and replanting them in the _spring_ and succeeded
> in _saving_ the plants?
>
> What say you.....
>
> Larry Doucette Wilmington, Mass.
>
I have spoken on this subject before. In TX and in MS, I never
had any problems with moving them in the spring. They catch the late
spring rains and get established before the heat of summer.
Others have said irises transplanted in the spring will not bloom
the next year. That is an "old 'wife's' tale" as far as I am concerned at
least in Zones 7/8
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS
