Now I'm confused. I read on another thread that one should lift or cut out the rhizome that bloomed as it will only bloom once. I've tried that and found it rather difficult to do without damaging the neighboring rhizomes. And often times the mother rhizome has lots of smaller babies sprouting out, I presume I would keep those guys. So far, I've just put black X's on the rhizome which bloomed while trying to sort this out. Any help from the iris folk would be greatly appreciated.