Re: Dutch Iris

I've read that to insure Dutch Iris bloom year after year, one needs to
plant bulbs for several years in a row.  

The analogy that sticks in my mind was in Organic Gardening years ago,
about tulips.  The writer said that the bulb one buys is a 100 watt bulb,
It blooms, and divides into two 50's, a few 20's, some 10's and a couple of
5's.  But until each of the resulting bulbs approaches "100 watt" size, it
won't bloom.  The 50's will send up leaves.

OTOH, I haven't been successful with Dutch Iris.  Occasionally my iris
reticulata, the 6-8" version, return, but they are always a surprise.
  
At 01:53 PM 5/29/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I planted Dutch iris which came up last spring (Spring 1997), but this past
>Spring (Spring 1998) I got foliage but not one bloom.  I thought they would
>be longer lived than one season.  What there something I should have done?

Wyn Achenbaum
Stamford, CT, 10 miles from Long Island Sound
Zone 6
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