Irises: Calling all iris pros, 0 by 1gardengram

1gardengram wrote:
The first year I had dahlias I dug them up and did everything by the book, except for this Firebird that I forgot about. The next year it popped up and did much better than the ones I had been so careful with. So the next year I left all of them in the ground and covered them with several layers of newspaper and about a foot of pinestraw/leaf mulch on top of that. Except the Firebird, which I again ignored, except for the pinestraw/leaf mulch my whole garden gets. It still does better than just about anything else. All of the dahlias that I left in the ground came back and did beautifully except one. This picture is of Mary, which was left over winter. So I am through digging. I may live to eat those words, but for now........ I don't dig up my cannas, either. Don't even mulch them but I do leave the foliage until spring. They sort of self-mulch. Sure are ugly during the winter, though.