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Dividing Iris is easy and is a great way to get loads more to share. Dividing and transplanting Iris keeps your plants healthy and beautiful! Here is an incredibly easy way to divide and transplant Iris in the garden step by step with video.
In this Emily Price Post , I share how to part Iris rhizomes and how to transplant in the garden with an sluttish dance step - by - step photograph demonstration . There is a video at the end of this Emily Price Post where I take you through it too .
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Iris is such a play industrial plant and so rewarding . Have you planted some in your garden and now they have fail to produce as many blooms as in past years ? Iris usually needs to be carve up once every 3 years or so . That is not a hard and fast rule but a generalized observation for most .
you’re able to start in August and continue through September . Since I have so many Iris rhizomes that need dividing and transplanting , spacing out the genuine body of work make up it less of an gruelling chore .
I hold out in the Sierra Nevada mountains of N. California at the 4500 foot degree . We get tidy sum of winter snow and dusty , then some mighty okay summer atmospheric condition averaging in the 80 ’s to moo 90 ’s .
We are considered a Zone 7 ( we have now been upgraded to Zone 8).I have garden with Iris for 35 years now . Here and in the San Joaquin valley , zona 9 to 10 . I am telling you this to show the divers expanse that Iris grows and thrives in .
When to divide and transplant Iris bulbs (aka rhizomes)
The best time to part Iris is6 to 8 hebdomad after heyday , it give them time to hive away up some energy .
But I also have had succeeder moil up and replanting right as they are done blooming . I do best in think of what color is where , I always say I am last to stigmatise them while blooming and somehow never get around to it .
I have started to TV during the blooming season so I can refer to the video to see what people of color is where . It works wonderfully !
This bunch of Iris is done for the season . Some kind will bloom again if youdeadhead , they are address reblooming Iris and it will be take note with the rhizome when you enjoin or buy them . They really do rebloom and it is commonly in September in my neck of the woodwind .
If you want to know what deadheading is then see this office , utter head for more blooms
Some citizenry clean up the plant just after blooming by shearing off the leaves , but I do n’t . And here ’s why … .
The rhizomes are feed by the leaves and it is better to let the leave stay to soak up the summer sunshine and have the electric-light bulb or rhizome ramp up up a food store for next yr ’s blooms . When the leaves are yellowish or look otherwise damage you may shear those off but leave the healthy - looking leaves to provide the intellectual nourishment for the rootstock to lay in until late Summer to early Fall .
You will have bigger and healthier flowers next year .
Cure & Store Iris Rhizomes
Not going to plant your Iris in your garden ?
If I am going to store or cure the rhizomes to give away I prepare a container with a bit of shuck to lie down them in . The straw allows air to circulate around the rhizomes which monish bunk . I also just lie down them out on the ground or on our pack of cards to dry . We subsist in a scurvy humidity area so this is sufficient .
Some dust the rhizome with sulfur or a powdered anti - fungal . I have not had to do that but you may take to consider it if fungus is an issue in your area .
Dig up Iris Rhizomes
Start a good 5 to 6 column inch back from the al-Qa’ida of the Iris clump and dig in your shovel or garden fork . Loosen around the cluster as best you could . It is soft on your back .
Iris are not set deep , they should be very near the surface but their roots can be long . In the video attached , you will see I really have to put some musculus into get the picture around the clump I am dividing .
Again , work on around the entire clump to loosen it from the dirt . Once you have it well loose it should pull up very easy .
you’re able to merely shake off the shit or hosepipe off the excess dirt to inspect the rootstalk for rot or insect damage .
The roots can by quite long and you trim them back for easier replanting . I grab the roots at the base of the rhizome and cut what hangs below my clenched fist . Then I trim back the leafage to about 4 to 6 inch long .
Sometimes rhizomes will separate themselves from the clumps voluntarily but unremarkably , I need to snub them aside .
Splitting Iris Rhizomes
To secern and/or cut out diseased and honest-to-goodness gnarly bits , use a cleansharp garden knifeand cut off it off at the marijuana cigarette .
It is easy to see where the stick is on this one , the rhizome narrows . ( see example above )
It is extremely recommended to thoroughly sanitize your cutting tools between cut so you do not fan out disease . Wiping them well with rubbing alcohol works fine for me . Just verify it is juiceless before cut more .
I have never had an issue with disease so you do n’t see me cleaning between stinger .
I started to use the handbasket with straw but had way too many rhizomes so I laid most of them out on the funny porch to dry out .
Transplant Iris Rhizomes
If you are not giving the excess Iris rhizomes aside you may replant like a shot , click here to see how I replant .
I will print a photo of the Iris in flush and place it with the rootstock I am giving away so whomever I gift it to will know what colouration it is .
If I am replanting in my garden I keep a hand - drag garden map of where I have put thing . This past summer I kept avideo garden journaland that has been excellent and helping me see what is where at any particular time of the growing season .
I wish well you great success with your Iris , they are one of my favorites and they are so easy !
well-chosen horticulture !
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