Thank you for your feedback Bonnie.
I like your sentence 'But since I live on a hill I have excellent drainage'. I can imagine the irises,, happy campers, on the top of the hill, kept away from their ennemy with the good drainage.
I saw rot only once (not in my garden) and I am cutting the part rotted. That is not the worse and I did not get any disease to face except once with irises received from a professional grower. That was really creepy. First as I did not face that ever before and because I read somewhere that diseases could spread over the garden and even jump from a garden to another. I put coal, they died but the other irises kept safe.
Heat is becoming a problem. Last summer was hell here in the South West of France. Quite difficult to work in the garden. To me all the care has to be done before summer. The bigger problem is with my primulas. Irises stand this heat. Nice to read also your irises are traveling in the garden, from South to North, benefiting of the best care. Could you please tell me what is happening with too much heat to the irises? Can they die from heat?
SDB are almost new comers for me and I have decided to grow them in pots also.
I agree with you. Losing irises makes you really sad and when speaking about very rare ones you will not have any chance to get again or with much difficulty you have to do your best to keep them thriving.
