Beginner's Question about Dividing, When & How
- Subject: Beginner's Question about Dividing, When & How
- From: J*@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:31:57 EDT
Hi,
I'm Denise, and I'm new here. I bought an Iris (Beverly Sills) from
Garden.com last spring (2000). All last summer and fall I waited for it to
flower. I have it in a very large blue pot. (I live in Tucson, where our
summer highs are in the hundreds, (lows in the seventies), our spring/fall
highs in the eighties (lows in the fifties), and our winter highs in the
sixties (lows in the high thirties). This summer it finally put up two
stalks and put out the most amazing blooms, after someone explained that (a)
it needs full sun to bloom, and (b) the bulb shouldn't be totally covered.
It's getting cooler here now. When I got the bulb eighteen months ago it was
about the size of a grapefruit, with a few fans of leaves about eight inches
high. The fans are now about eighteen inches, the blooms died off sometime
ago, and I'm wondering what I should do now. It has about eight or nine fans
now, in addition to the two stalks. I'm wondering if I should divide it or
not. I took it in last winter on nights when it got near freezing (we only
have a few here). Does anyone have any advice?
Thank you,
Denise
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