We propagate and sell many modern bearded iris varieties that have been introduced since 2001. In addition, we carry Dykes Award winners and many favorite heirloom varieties.

Our iris garden is situated on a sandy morainal ridge in Southern Wisconsin. The plants receive full sun and excellent drainage all summer long, producing excellent quality rhizomes. Our varieties are also very hardy, surviving and thriving through harsh Wisconsin winters.

Please check out our photographed inventory at http://www.damongardens.com/dg....
We will be updating many of our photos this year when the Wisconsin bloom season begins.

This year's bestseller has been "Around We Go" (Rogers 2009). Only a few left in stock! http://www.damongardens.com/dg...

Welcome, I got that one two years ago from Breezeway Gardens, it hasn't bloomed yet, maybe this year.

What city are you near?

Beautiful iris!

tveguy3 said:Welcome, I got that one two years ago from Breezeway Gardens, it hasn't bloomed yet, maybe this year.

What city are you near?

Hi tveguy3,

We are located near Janesville, WI (but we only sell iris online).
We bought this iris in 2010 and this picture is from Spring 2013.

I agree with Rob. Beautiful Iris.

Love your pic of American Master. Beautiful iris!

Lestv said: Love your pic of American Master. Beautiful iris!

Thanks! Going to be uploading more soon!

How 'bout that, Tom!!

Welcome, Damon Gardens! Around We go is beautiful!!

Yes, I live in Janesville too.

I got so caught up in the beautiful iris, I forgot to say "welcome Damon".

UndertheSun said:I got so caught up in the beautiful iris, I forgot to say "welcome Damon".

Thanks!

Glad you could join us !...Arlyn

I've looked through your site and I will probably place an order in July. Am expecting a property tax refund then and will have to prioritize, but I think I will be ordering.

Meanwhile: I don't remember where I read this - probably somewhere else on ATP - but I am SURE you can tell me right or wrong: after a rhizome has made a flower stalk, it will never make another. It becomes food for its "kids" and after the first season of that, you can remove the older rhizome with a knife instead of digging and dividing the whole bed every few years.

A rhizome will only flower once. It's increases are "next years bloom". So I call the iris a "Cycle Perennial". The "mother" rhizome I do not believe is "food" for the babies/increases as the new increase put out their own roots. The mother would also hold the increases in place and combat frost heaving; but you could discard the mother as described. I would still think you would need to dig up the clump anyway, but maybe at a later date than if you did not cut out the mother rhizome. My 2 cents.

Thank you.
2 cents add up!

I brought home a TON of irises removed (by request) from places last fall, and I just planted them in a hury before winter hit.

SO I'm wanting to do a better job after they bloom this year - IF they bloom this year. Perhaps I'll let the "parent" rhizome overwinter once before cutting it out, just in case it does provide for the "increases".

AND I sold some at the flea market in years past not knowing about the one bloom only. I HOPE they all had "increases" on them so I didn't sell someone a dying plant.

and have nothing really to add. Thanks Misawa77! And thanks for browsing our website crittergarden.

If the "mother "rhizome is healthy ( not starting to soften, and still growing good foliage) it will push out some increase, even after being transplanted. You can tell when it is at the end of it's" reproductive life, and usefulness", by the condition of the roots. A Viable rhizome will still have healthy roots, directly under the "fan" of leaves. As you look at the roots farther down the rhizome (away from the fan) you will notice the roots decrease in "health and vigor" , first dry and withered, moving to just a few dried out husks, and finally to only the pores where the roots used to be. This is usually th e area where the rhizome itself is getting totally dried out, often leaving only a hollow "husk"....Arlyn

crowrita1 said:If the "mother "rhizome is healthy ( not starting to soften, and still growing good foliage) it will push out some increase, even after being transplanted. You can tell when it is at the end of it's" reproductive life, and usefulness", by the condition of the roots. A Viable rhizome will still have healthy roots, directly under the "fan" of leaves. As you look at the roots farther down the rhizome (away from the fan) you will notice the roots decrease in "health and vigor" , first dry and withered, moving to just a few dried out husks, and finally to only the pores where the roots used to be. This is usually th e area where the rhizome itself is getting totally dried out, often leaving only a hollow "husk"....Arlyn

Thank you - I definitely WILL leave them until year 2 then.
I knew about the roots, bu was wanting to not dig them all the way out.
I will leave them over the following winter and THEN hori-hori them out.


Productive learning happened here!

crittergarden said:
I brought home a TON of irises removed (by request) from places last fall, and I just planted them in a hury before winter hit.

Can't wait to pictures of the blooms!

That's part of the thing....
NO BUDS YET. Thinking I might have broken them up so much that I will have to wait a year. Irises are happening here, just. And my yard IS a little slow from being just barely full sun. But NO sign of buds yet....