Re: Cutting Fans

Mike00Rita@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
>      When the fans get looking droopy and a place for fungus to get started I
> try to get out to the garden and do some cleaning up before it just too
> chilly. By the same token bein g too clean might mean you are taking away
> that plants self protecting devices! So you have to decide what is right fot
> your iris.
> 
>      There was a question about PCN or Ca for the native iris of western USA.
> Personally I feel that PCI would be most correct as hybrids are not "native".
> I realize that CA became a popular nonclature as that is where many plants
> were being introduced from (California ). The latest I've been told is to use
> PCN.
> 
> Rita B


I used to believe that one should never ever cut their iris foilage. 
However over time I have modified my position.  I believe that late fall
or early winter would be ok to cut the foilage.  My reason now is that
these leaves are near death and will brown and disintegrate over the
winter.  The iris will develop new leaves quickly in the spring.  I
still firmly believe that the foilage should not be cut before this.   

I just finished reading an old issue of the Society for Pacific Coast
Native Iris (Fall 1994).  They refer to themselves as such but all
references in the issue to the plants or seeds they refer to them as
PCI's.  

Rick Tasco
Superstition Iris Gardens
Central California
Zone 8
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