The year before last I rescued some iris tubers from a skip on a near neighbours drive, the tubers looked a bit sad and dry, but nothing ventured nothing gained, so I brought them home and planted them near the front gate and forgot about them.
Last year they produced plenty of green spears but no flowers, the neighbour said I was welcome to them because they'd never ever flowered for her and they wouldn't for me either. This year it's a different story I saw the leaf spears growing a few weeks ago and then the flower stems arrived and finally these fantastic flowers, there's about ten or twelve of these majestic blooms already and there's more to come.
They'll fade soon enough but the neighbour will be green when she sees them.
Hi John
ReplyDeleteIris are one of my favourite flowers and before the kids came along a minor passion of mine..........
To get a good show, Bearded Iris need to be grown in a really sunny spot where the tubers can bake over the summer. The soil needs to be rich and well draining and they need a lot of high potassium and phosphorus fertiliser (they are 'hungry' flowers). By the looks of it you have met most if not all of these conditions! To stop overcrowding, split the tubers up every few years and you will be gifted with a beautiful show every season.
Enjoy
Alistair
ReplyDeletethey are beautiful flowers, here one minute and gone the next. When we lived I Berkshire the tractors used to bring manure for our allotments and drive over the Iris bed. Despite, or because of the destruct
ion the flowers were fantastic. I love them. John