I had some rot this year, mostly fue to an extremely wet & cold spring, and some overcrowding. But summer, was hot and dry. I ended up making an iris only bed, and transplanting all of my iris to it. In doing so, I severaly cut and tossed anything that seemed even remotely soft, mushy, smelly, etc. I then left everything to air dry in the hot sun for a dew days. Now those poor massive 1 year old clumps are tiny = enough so, that I wonder what kind of bloom season I will have next spring.
On my charts, I thought of this late during my daylily season, but next year, I am going to make copies of my charts, I will have everything numbered, but not necessarily taking up space with the names. I will have a place for the date, then as I go outside on my daily wanderings, I will make notes, and perhaps using a colored pencil, and mark which ones are blooming each day - along with scape heights, etc. The little bit I did this with my daylilies it worked really well. I had all the daylily beds condensed onto one sheet. So instead of me making notes (and losing them) I just kept it all in a 3 ring binder and all my information - along with the date, is right at my fingertips. Wish I had thought of this earlier in the season! But next year I will be prepared! ~Jan
