I am just starting to get into the bad areas for me. I expect a SHARP uptake in the goners section.

Lost:
Act of Kindness and Let's Romp.
I'm really surprised I haven't lost more with the extreme heat and the horrible drought.

I cut rot off a new rhizome tonight. All the rhizomes from that vendor are showing mold too.
I will take a group photo before I plant them and spray Serenade where they get planted. Hopefully they do okay. The rhizomes are big, fat ones.

We have acid soil in the northeast. I wonder if that's why I don't have the same kind of problems as rhizomes from away.

Rob, check your trades list, my only Lady Leigh just gave up right after I planted it. It did not rot, just sat there and sulked and dried up. It is someone else who shared LL with you. smiles

I think you misunderstood, yes someone else sent me Lady Leigh, but I already have it. So I was offering it to you to replace the one you lost.

Yay -- Rob to the rescue!!!

yes, Rob, I did misunderstand the post. Thank you for the offer. I would love to have LL. I will tree mail my information.

My list of goners increases weekly it seems. The move was hard on them, especially sitting in pots with 20" of rain in June. Shannopin and Golden Hind were both attempted rescues from the bed that the new owner allowed to overgrow with high weeds causing all clumps to rot. Both had been on the edge so I was hoping they'd survive, but mush they became even in the new location, new soil and high sun. I do have other varieties now to replace them.
The picture of that bed in bloom before the move was posted in another thread earlier. Wish I had taken a picture of it when I went back, but too sad.

I think I will ignore the one that rotted, as this grower sent me an extra bonus..

Cast a Spell
Brazilian Holiday
Insaniac
Indian Hills
Alizes

Oh, sad. I hate that so many were lost.

Rob - I will take you up on the offer of Edge of The World for next year. Thanks!

Greg - Sorry for your continuing losses. It's a rough year in PA.

You have had your share of loses this year Greg. I just accepted the fact that Gold Legacy is gone. It was a new one planted this year. It was looking ruff, but it had a tiny increase that looked like it would grow, but then that died. That was such a nice mustard yellow too.

Walked around the new beds today and "smelled rot." So I checked all for any droopy leaves and such and found that Lucky Doris is not so lucky this time having not survived the move. Replacement is already ordered.

My poor little Cinnamon Flash, and poor Doctor Moody. Both are making such progress, but now have been nibbled on by grasshoppers/crickets. A sprinkling of Sevin is being applied daily. They also tried to chew up my Death by Chocolate and Apollo's Touch. The nerve of them!

I did not know that crickets and grasshoppers nibbled on irises! Something has bitten little parts of some of my rhizomes and I do have lots of crickets....Hmmmm....

Yes, they do. I have some dwarf irises that make slender leaves and when the hoppers munch on them sometimes they take the top half completely off or chew through enough that the top half falls off. It looks like someone with pinking shears went through the bed. I apply comet. I don't know if it is the taste or the grit but they leave them alone until after a rain then I re apply.

They seem to like only the smaller rhizomes. They leave my large rhizomes alone. It looks like little craters on the rhizome where they have nibbled and there is rhizome "dust" left behind.