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Gardening

Betsy Ross

(3,147 posts) Mon Mar 31, 2014, 06:49 PM Mar 2014

Yelow bearded irises

Some one gave them to me. I put them in the ground. They are spreading prolifically. I thinned them this fall. One is about to flower. I have never had more than one flower any given year. What does it need that I am not giving it?

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Yelow bearded irises (Original Post) Betsy Ross Mar 2014 OP

Are they in full sun? Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #1

it may be limited hours of sun. My yard gets sun only part of the day. Betsy Ross Mar 2014 #2

Curmudgeoness

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1. Are they in full sun?

Reply to Betsy Ross (Original post)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 09:11 PM

Mar 2014

Irises need full sun for at least 6-8 hours a day to bloom well.

Are they planted too deep? The top of the rhizome should sit about the soil line.

When you thinned them out, did you break up the rhizomes, or just move some plants out of the way. They should be split every 3-4 years at best.

Is the soil well-drained? They do best in that condition.

Those are my suggestions.

Betsy Ross

(3,147 posts)

2. it may be limited hours of sun. My yard gets sun only part of the day.

Reply to Curmudgeoness (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 10:56 PM

Mar 2014

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