dirtdorphins said:And now that I've become addicted to them I have tons to share too 
I think I'm becoming an iris addict too. Okay, I KNOW I've become an iris addict!
I've grown iris for years. It started in Utah, and I loved how carefree they were. I loved everything about them really, but daylilies were more my thing. I still have a huge daylily obsession, but I finally said enough is enough, and stopped adding more! Well, for now anyways.
I brought a few iris with me from Utah, and I love that they bloom earlier than the daylilies. Debra was so sweet to share some with me, as did another friend here. That filled in all the extra room at the time, but I've made more room since then! Plus, I just looked out the window and it looks like I've got a field that is a couple of acres or more, and it has nothing growing in it but grass that I hate to mow! That means room for more iris, right?
Silly me just ordered a bunch online, too! What can I say other than they were on sale, and I need more! Dirt, if you have some to share, I'd be happy to take them off your hands! Just let me know what I owe you for them! Since about 60% of my property appears to be a rock garden, I can go crazy planting them now!
According to a neighbor who had lived here for over 50 years, my property was never farmed, so I'm not sure why anyone would have cleared the rocks out of the fields. The people we bought from said that this woman's son used to farm the property though. So, we asked him, and he said it has never been farmed. The house has only been here about 20 years, so I don't know what to think. I'm no longer going to question it though. I'm just happy that I have some land without rocks covering it!
Sadly, I noticed a few days ago that most of the iris here have leaf spot on them.
I have no idea what to do about it, if anything. It's not horrible at this point and it didn't affect blooming at all, but I do need to look into it a little further to see if I need to treat it. I think spreading them out more will probably help some, since they were getting a little crowded. Hopefully if I can get this resolved, I can share some too! I would never send them on to someone else with that issue going on though.
I love iris!
