Very informative and helpful, thank you 😊

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I thoroughly enjoyed watching your video. My Amarillious Belladona are in full bloom right now. I'm in the Sierra foothills of central Calif. I noticed my flowers are much deeper shade of pink than in years past. Any idea why that would be? AND what brand of gloves are you using? I need those for my roses. Ouch! 😢

Excellent video, thank you so much!

Thanks. Great info..

What to do for a baby lemon tree mine dried out I water every day but at the end of Aug it dried out what should I do

I feel like a gardening pro now because I have a very similar set up.

WE HAVE grown Iris for so many years and at one time had over 800 named Iris, all neatly named and labeled (don't ask, My husband is a scientist and detail oriented! ) but now we are 75 and 78 and I'm doing good to label with COLOR, and type (, tall bearded (TB) Standard Bearded (SDB) etc. One of the things we really enjoy is receiving photos from friends of the Iris we have sent to them, then they produce more, and I just received a box of WHITE CHRISTMAS TALL BEARDED from my darling cousin! we sent some to her years ago, I thought we had lost them and she sent more! Happy dancing. sharing is so much fun! this year I am dividing Iris I propagated from my MOM'S garden! I grew up with these HISTORIC Iris from the 1950's! I'LL BEING SENDING TO MY COUSINS and friends WHO LOVED MY MOM! I THINK WHO EVER said "what goes around, comes around" , had to be thinking of IRIS!

One important question: is it mandatory to soak the rhizomes to loosen up and clean old dirt? if so, how long do you soak them for? And, do you let them dry up before storing them in wood shavings? Or is a second purpose to keep moist in to soak them before storing them? I am trying this for the first time but needed to do it now ( Mid August in zone 3 - late Summer) and mine have been in a pot, got overwatered ( because I watered them😩) and lost a few roots🙁 The soil was sooo clay based and many clumps stayed on and around the roots. Now, after letting them dry in the sun and finally pulling them out of the pots; they are finally drying up but not sure if I want to soak them in water again… Are all the brown shriveled roots dead and shall I pull them all off and just leave the thick white roots on? I really appreciate your help because I want to store them overwinter but found that you can store them also wrapped in paper bags and then inside a cardboard box. How cold should the garage be to store them there? mine is not-insulated. Thank you again for all your help!☺️

My favorite flower. Good information!

Great demo; thanks!

How do you harvest without killing them? I have one in bloom I want to pick

Love the nippers!

Great video. I have a bucket and have been using it for years. If the soil is wet, the bucket keeps everything dry. I also use a tool belt that fits inside the bucket. It has pockets the help me organize my smaller tools. You can get it at a home improvement center.

Thx.

After years of apartment living in a city center, I recently bought a beach house fixer with an equally fixer garden and am feeling a little overwhelmed. This is so helpful! Thanks 🙏🏻

Could you plant the sucker once removed into a pot to grow another fruit tree. Or will it be imperfect and so not worth it? Many thanks (I have a huge sucker from apricot tomcot.

If you trim the leaves at an angle from the bottom to the center leave on each side, you have a nice fan shape on each plant. ❤

Very informative 🤗 thank you

I live in West Virginia and the winter here is cold, should I leave the neck of the bulb out of the ground?

When do I plant the bulbs?

I read that drilling holes will introduce rust if you don’t seal them. I am trying to decide - holes or small rocks in the bottom.

What if it doesn't flower, is it the same process ?

Thanks for the great video, I am sure the rooster agrees with all you said too!

After the flower bloom the things left look like seeds ...is that something I can plant

Just a heads up for folks like me in warmer zones. Merveille des quatre saisons does NOT germinate well at temperatures over 75°F. They might germinate, they might not. The funny thing is that ONCE GERMINATED, Merveille des quatre saisons does great in almost all weather... hot to below freezing.

How did your white top stay so clean? I would have had to change my shirt a few times. I have grown irises for many years. It has gotten to the point that drastic measures are taken every few years. Nobody wants them and every time I divide so many get sent to yard waste. I have tried to compost them myself, the foliage is okay but the rhizomes take far too long to break down. In fact I have had volunteer irises wherever I used the compost for awhile. I will probably start thinning them out sooner rather than later just so I have time for other things.

Really an excellent video. Explains and demonstrated so that it was easy to follow thank you.

This was so helpful. I used to take all of our tools to a guy who sharpened them. Now I can do them myself and keep up with it!

I'm so excited to separate mine this fall!

This is a very helpful video done at a pace that I found to be relaxing. A note I offer is that the part declared as being "dead" actually isn't. That part is referred to as the "mother". Rather than discarding it, honor her value by replanting with her "daughters" or in a R & R bed. That part will make new offshoots. While it may be slow, she will give forth many new plants.

Thanks for making this video, i have several new roses this spring in the UK and i've got long large "suckers" coming from them which i'll remove this evening. Thanks.

This was so very helpful. I had no idea on how to take care of the beautiful plants I inherited when I bought this house. Looking forward to following your instruction in the fall. (Zone 6b CT) Thank You!

a wonderful video, thank you!

Most kindly explained thank you I'm watching for our Australian native iris I have which needs dividing

I want to divide my huge clump of irises and store them individually over the winter. Come spring I want to plant them up into individual pots and give to friends. How would I store them over the winter

Thank you. This is so straightforward.

Thank you for this helpful video. My situation is that my neighbor's watering system overwatered my Leucospermum High Gold to the point that it got mealy bugs and the flowers literally popped off. I've removed the plant (still in its large container trying not to disturb the roots) and eradicated the insect problem. There are new buds at each "pop off" location. Should I let them grow or do I still need to prune (way early -its June in so Cal) so that the cut is no longer flat?. I have over 2+" of green below, but I'm afraid to lose these remaining buds! What's the best plan here?

I wish I could find a stock tank with higher sides. I’ve tried one 2 foot tall. And my son make sure he mows the weeds toward it so it’ll fill up with seed weeds. We only have a cistern so we have no running water to water the plants so I take 5 gallon buckets and drain my aquariums in the house and bring out the water to use as fertilizer and watering.

Does it matter what region you are in when storing your rhizomes outside?

Thanks so much!

This is the best, most helpful, easiest to understand iris video I’ve ever seen. Just what I needed to know. Thank you.

Thank you!

Can the suckers coming out of the ground be dug up and replanted to make another tree?

Thanks. It was great to learn.

Does it have to be in the fall??😊

I’d like to save the suckers off my pie cherry tree

I jave s friend that keeps giving me iris rinzones i just been throwing them away now ill plant them

This is exactly what I needed to know! Thank you!

I had no idea how awfully unmaintained by Iris beds were until watching this video. But now I have a lot of work to do. I think the best thing to do is carefully dig them all up, one bed at a time, remove the dirt but saving it, clean up and remove all unproductive "parts", fan the leaves, and plant them back but nowhere as thick. It is late May here in NW Georgia and I don't want to wait until September. What would you advise?