How to Transplant Irises

Article by: LeAnn R. Ralph

In my experience, irises are among the easiest flowers , Composting and Soil Improvements to transplant. One spring , Investing In or Owning Drug Lab Properties many years ago, an older friend of mine dug up an iris bed , Ten Steps to Perfect Pasta at her home. , What You Don't Know About Roses They were bearded irises -- a lovely shade of lilac purple -- and she moved some of them to a different location , Bird Feeder Basics . The irises had already started to grow , Wildlife Gardener and were about four inches high. She didn't know what to do with the remaining irises, so she put them in a box, intending to give them away. As it turned out, the irises remained in the box for more than two weeks. By now, she didn't feel she could give them away because she didn't think they would grow. , Kitchen Design ï¿½ Understanding the Work Triangle and Kitch I offered to take the irises and plant , Help With Buying A New Ceiling Fan them, just to see what would happen. The irises were not one bit bothered about being in a box for more than two weeks with no water , Ideas On How To Use Container Gardening To Decorate Your House And Garden and no dirt around their root , So You've Decided to Finish Your Basement! s. I planted them, they started growing, , Home Loans – Would You Buy A Home Without An Inspection? and they're still going strong more than 25 years later. In the past two decades, I have thinned out the irises and plant , Ideas On How To Use Container Gardening To Decorate Your House And Garden ed them in other locations. , Hurricane Emergency Power I have also found irises grow , REPLACING STEEL CASEMENT WINDOWS (PART 2) ing by old homesteads where no buildings , Investing In or Owning Drug Lab Properties remain (I live in rural Wisconsin) and have dug them up and transplanted them in my yard. , Help With Buying A New Ceiling Fan Each year in early June, the irises bloom in a variety of colors: white, , The Terrorist's Favorite Weed/ Castor Bean blue, , Ten Steps to Perfect Pasta yellow and purple. Here's how to , Choosing the Right Roses for your Garden transplant irises: 1. Prepare the new flower , REPLACING STEEL CASEMENT WINDOWS (PART 2) bed where you intend to plant , Composting and Soil Improvements the irises. 2. Use a shovel to dig up the roots , REPLACING STEEL CASEMENT WINDOWS (PART 2) that you want to transplant. Irises have very tough root , Choosing the Right Roses for your Garden systems. If the irises are exceptionally thick, a trowel probably won't do the trick. Stick the shovel into the dirt among the irises and start digging. And don't worry about cutting the roots , Choosing the Right Roses for your Garden with the shovel. You won't be able to avoid it. Irises spread by their roots, , How To Prune Roses so many of the plants , Ten Steps to Perfect Pasta will be connected. Even a short section of root , Home Loans – Would You Buy A Home Without An Inspection? stands an excellent chance of transplanting. 3. Dig holes with a trowel about four inches deep and eight to ten inches apart. Put the iris roots , Hurricane Season – How Can You Prepare for It into the holes and cover with soil. , Ten Steps to Perfect Pasta 4. Water , How to Grow Cooking Herbs the transplanted irises thoroughly. For the remainder of the season, , Hurricane Emergency Power water , Ideas On How To Use Container Gardening To Decorate Your House And Garden the irises a couple of times each week, especially when rain is in short supply. Observations about irises: 1. From what I have seen of the irises growing , Wildlife Gardener in my flower , Common plant and diseases beds, they are tough plants , Find the Right Apartment Quickly and Easily with An Apartmen that are quite drought , How to uy a Porch Swing resistant. Like any plant, , Increasing the Value of Your Home with Kitchen Remodeling they will do better when they receive plenty of water , Kitchen Design ï¿½ Understanding the Work Triangle and Kitch , but during years when it has been dry, they have still survived extremely well. And of course, the irises that I dug up from old homesteads didn't have any help at all during drought , Increasing the Value of Your Home with Kitchen Remodeling years, and *they* made it just fine. 2. The irises in my yard , Composting and Soil Improvements seem to do equally well in full sun , How to completely rehab your home in 10 days! or in partial shade. 3. Trimming the iris leaves after the plants , The Green Giant Arborvitae Story are done blooming to give more room , Herb Gardening and more light , Increasing the Value of Your Home with Kitchen Remodeling to other plants , Help With Buying A New Ceiling Fan nearby doesn't seem to bother the irises. For the past couple of years, I have trimmed irises growing , Hurricane Season – How Can You Prepare for It next to my rose , Bonsai Trees bush, and the following year, the irises have come back as strong as ever. ******************** LeAnn R. Ralph is the author of the farm , Herb Gardening books "Christmas in Dairyland (True Stories from a Wisconsin Farm" (trade paperback 2003); "Give Me a Home , Ten Steps to Perfect Pasta Where the Dairy Cows Roam" (trade paperback 2004); "Preserve Your Family History (A Step-by-Step Guide for Interviewing Family Members and Writing Oral Histories" (e-book 2004). You are invited to sign up for the free monthly newsletter, Rural Route 2 News -- http://ruralroute2.com

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