color changing iris???????

[ninnymary]

The couple that I have, I'm always moving around.

Mary

 

[ducks4you]

I have been watching all of my iris this year--I only have two on the property-- and I have very few purple and white striped, the ones that smell like grape. MOST of them are the black iris (and this IS my photo!):

 

[Nyboy]

Wow Ducks beautiful

 

[canesisters]

That is GEORGOUS!!!!!!!

 

[canesisters]

There is no really bad time to transplant iris (presuming the ground isn't frozen). You may lose this year's bloom if you do it now, but the rhizome will be strong and healthy.

I'd bet that I'm not going to get any blooms anyway because of all the competition they've got. Might be best to move them sooner rather than later - thanks.

 

[catjac1975]

Got a question (and WISH I had thought to take a picture...)

My little iris bed around the pine stump has been neglected and has gotten COMPLETELY overgrown with weeds/grass/poison oak-ivy/a holly/etc. And I mean completely... yesterday I pulled a wheelbarrow of gone-to-seed oats to give to the cows. They must've been survivors from the 'composted' horse manure....
Anyway, I was thinking that it might be easiest to just dig the whole thing up in the fall, clean the rhizomes off completely, and re-plant somewhere else so that I can then deal with the weeds and stuff without worrying about killing the iris...
Or is there a better way?

I did this but not because of weeds. I relocated a bed 2 years ago and now they are et to explode with color in much better location.