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Aug 4, 2011 9:28 PM CST
Name: Lucy
Tri Cities, WA (Zone 6b)
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Starting to plant our new irises. I think cut worms have been around the old. Leaves have been chewed & lying on the ground, but not eaten. Some strategic watering cans of water have been added where the damaged plants have been. the soil is so very dry.
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Aug 5, 2011 12:50 PM CST
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Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
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So here is were I have been working. These are done.


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This is the next section to do. I started to cut the fans back so that I could work there and that was as far as I got.
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Going out there now to do more work on the iris.
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Aug 5, 2011 1:25 PM CST
Name: Betty
Bakersfield, CA
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Lookin' good, Rita!
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Aug 5, 2011 1:48 PM CST
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Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
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They still are close together but I don't want to part with any to change the spacing. In that next section, I am not even digging. I was just slicing off rhizomes that were growing off in towards thier neighbors to make each clump smaller. Much easier than digging and the part of the clump that is left doesn't even have the roots disturbed.
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Aug 5, 2011 3:05 PM CST
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Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
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The non digging also goes alot faster than the digging method. I moved around to the front and did three more with the non digging method. Then I dug three totally that are not going to be replanted as they are moving outta here. So now I can continue or I can take three of the ones that need to move and replant them in my so far empty spots. Still a lot of work but more manageable.

Good thing I planned ahead and tied orange surveyers take around the ones that were to be totally moved out. Otherwise now that bloom season is long gone I would never have remembered which blooms it was I thought were ugly Rolling on the floor laughing

I dread when I get to iris corner because there is no room to work there and I just know I will have to dig.
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Aug 5, 2011 3:28 PM CST
Name: Betty
Bakersfield, CA
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That's always my problem. I have to sit on my little stool in order to work because of my bad knees, so I have to cut the leaves back before I can even perch myself over them -- and of course I always plant my iris close together in order to get more in. So it gets pretty interesting sometimes... and I really dread it this year because it's going to be especially bad. But it sounds like you are really plowing ahead and accomplishing a lot -- congrats!
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Aug 5, 2011 4:52 PM CST
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Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
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So as much is done today as is going to get done. Actually I am very pleased with all that got done. The last part of the day when I went back outside to work after 5:05 post I decided to move iris instead of going back to dividing. It was something that had to get done very soon anyway, just like the dividing, so not like I was wasting my time.

I got 6 iris moved to new spots. Unfortunately its not like that opened up any spots as were I had them planted wasn't working out. But I had made those "new" spots by digging iris that are totally outta here. So at least I will not have ones blooming next year that I can't stand.

I have (or now had) a row of ten iris I got from Schreiners last year that I had planted in a section of raised bed in the front yard with daylilies in front. I thought it would work with iris in back as the iris bloom much earlier than the daylilies. But although the iris seem to have liked it there as they are really growing nicely, I found when they bloomed this spring I really could not easily see the blooms. I wasn't happy about that.

So now I have moved six of those ten already, one is totally outta here and three are still to be moved to make my ten. I have to make room for were they are going by moving other iris so everything is a project.



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Aug 5, 2011 4:54 PM CST
Name: Betty
Bakersfield, CA
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What did you decide to part with? Just curious...
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Aug 5, 2011 5:31 PM CST
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Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
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Two orange Kasperack iris, ORANGUTAN ORANGE and TANZANIAN TANGERINE. Can't stand either one of them. A NO ID purple that was not what it was labeled. JAMAICAN DREAM a Schreiners bonus iris that I can't stand. OPEN YOUR HEART a bonus iris from Rockytop that I don't like either. ORANGE POP that I bought thinking it was a TB but it's not. It is short and has small flowers. That is the shovel prune list so far.
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Aug 5, 2011 6:37 PM CST
Name: Polly Kinsman
Hannibal, NY (Zone 6a)

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Great job, Rita. Now you've accomplished so much that just gives you more steam to do more.
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Aug 5, 2011 6:50 PM CST
Name: Mitch Fitzgerald
Blanchard Oklahoma (Zone 7b)
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looking those up some of them are nice Iris, I am sure they will be loved in their new home!
Mitch Fitzgerald

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Aug 5, 2011 6:58 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
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Polly, thanks. It went much better today then it did when I first started the other day. That is the trouble with having a garden. It is such a joy to have all the bloom but always some work needs doing.

Mitch, I have the rejects from my garden as well as the extras from the dividing sorted into two stacks. I already have two friends waiting on receiving them. So they will not go to waste. They have alot more garden space than I do but I really have to be picky.
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Aug 5, 2011 9:01 PM CST
Name: Lucy
Tri Cities, WA (Zone 6b)
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Orange Pop is a border iris, which is why it is smaller. Not too big on broken color mayself. Ground very dry here like sand. A small piece of iris came out & can't replant as the soil is too dry to hold it up. can't soak as there is a watering ban in town.
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Aug 5, 2011 9:08 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
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No ones fault about ORANGE POP but my own. I was not paying attention to the describtion. But the time it arrived last year I had realised my mistake but planted it anyway thinking to give it a try. Trial period is over, it bloomed and now it is outta here. I really don't like smaller or shorter. Tall Bearded are the ones for me.
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Aug 6, 2011 5:46 AM CST
Name: Mitch Fitzgerald
Blanchard Oklahoma (Zone 7b)
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Rita I hear you on space... Everything cannot be here, so oranges on the whole never will live in my yard - be they Iris, Daylily, etc... not a fan and I have ground room but not watering room so I steer clear of some colors altogether.
Mitch Fitzgerald

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Aug 6, 2011 6:02 AM CST
Name: Lucy
Tri Cities, WA (Zone 6b)
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Course opposite on size for us. We prefer the smaller irises & have few TBs.
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Aug 6, 2011 2:46 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Tomato Heads I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Vegetable Grower Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge)
Birds Garden Ideas: Master Level Butterflies Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Roses Photo Contest Winner: 2016
I love todays fancy ruffled and big flowered Tall Bearded Iris. I just can't believe how beaufiful the flowers are. Going with the fancy flowers theme, I don't mostly like what are usually called the historic iris although I think they are in the tall bearded catagory. Maybe not. I do love Siberian Iris but in the bearded Iris it is Tall Bearded Iris for me.
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Aug 6, 2011 2:53 PM CST
Name: Lucy
Tri Cities, WA (Zone 6b)
irises
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Love the dwarfs, giggle. Of course I am short. Sun Sprite, my first introduction. One loves one's own kids best.
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Aug 6, 2011 2:54 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Tomato Heads I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Vegetable Grower Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge)
Birds Garden Ideas: Master Level Butterflies Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Roses Photo Contest Winner: 2016
Working on the Iris dividing and moving project again today. Started working a lot sooner than I did yesterday and the other day so I am done for now today.

I was able to finish moving the last three of that used to be row of ten that I started yesterday. So thats all finished. Then I also moved another Kasparic iris I have, BLACK FALLS into a spot in the back yard.

Along the very front yard along the right side I have lots of terraced gardens and along a section of the first small terrace I have 9 iris running across with Hummingbird mints interspaced as there are three groupings of three each. Hummingbirds mints in between groupings. So I was working on those nine iris today. Two were shovel prunned, JAZZ SOLO too much look alike to another I have and like better so its outta here. Also another Kasperack, ELAINILOPE. Never bloomed as long as I have had it. This one I tossed in the garbage as last year it got flattened somehow, never grew the fans back. This spring nothing buit finially did sprout some tiny green that never got over 4 inches tall. If it doesn't want to thrive, fine. It has a new home in the garbage.

Then I moved over PRAGUE from were it was next to SPOT STARTER into JAZZ SOLO's old spot. Just didn't like it next to SPOT STARTER. Then had to go on to divide the rest of the iris there. Couldn't use the hack a piece off method I used in the back yard as I had some huge clumps. SPOT STARTER was the biggest clump but others were big and massive and really needed dividing badly also. So I had to dig all the clumps, yikes. Watered and called it a day for the iris dividing.

Now what I have left to do is the iris garden I call iris corner further along the front yard. It is really in need of dividing badly. Maybe I can start there tomorrow but I have had enough for today.
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Aug 6, 2011 5:55 PM CST
Name: Polly Kinsman
Hannibal, NY (Zone 6a)

Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database. Region: United States of America Irises Lilies
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Time for a nice cold beverage. It would be a beer here.

What is a hummingbird mint, Rita?

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