I cleaned up some of the bearded iris rhizomes. There are only a few remaining in the large bed I tried to grow a few years ago. I moved most to other locations. Some of that area was also potatoes last year. I will downsize, converting that to easily mowed lawn, over the winter. Meanwhile, I'm looking between thistles and grasses for remaining bearded iris clumps.
This clump lost its label. If this variety blooms next year, I can figure it out. With all of the ones I dug up, I hosed off all of the soil that I could.
Then separated rhizomes to pull out grasses and remove burnt-out old rhizomes.
Trimmed, and selected the healthiest appearing ones.
And planted into a container with fresh potting soil.
Here's another container. These were mostly in worse shape. Two are new rhizomes that I bought.
Bearded irises should be really easy to grow. The challenges here are the aggressive thistles and grasses that invade the clumps, which have to be pulled by hand. Also, in rainy spring weather, they get fungal spot and bacterial rot. My hope here is they will be much easier to give TLC in the big containers, and I can keep them on the back patio when in season, then move to the vegetable garden the rest of the time.
I con't know if they will bloom next year, or thrive in the containers. I hope they do.
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