Re: Beginner's Question about Dividing, When & How

Hello, Denise,
I live in north Phoenix about 120 miles north of Tucson and about 10 degrees hotter.  I would say that your Beverly Sills has done very well in her pot.  I would not divide it now since you say it is a very large pot.  It will probably bloom beautifully next spring.  Then I would prepare a bed with good soil and a lot of compost but no manure.  I would divide and replant the new rhizomes in mid-September, and definitely give her some companions like Yaquina Blue, Skating Party (a great white) and Mary Frances (a great lavender).  Those all do well in this climate.  Good luck with Beverly Sills.  I find her to be finicky, harder to grow than the others I have mentioned.
Francelle Edwards  Glendale, AZ  Zone 9
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: JesseLee04@aol.com 
  To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 9:31 AM
  Subject: [iris-talk] Beginner's Question about Dividing, When & How


  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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