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Danielle Try mothballs or mothflakes to keep kitty out of your garden. I trained my puppy to keep off my houseplants with it. Also used it against male dogs using my evergreen shrubs as a toilet. I found it is the only thing that works. A little goes a long way.

To keep track of my irises in the garden since labels do get lost, I coded mine with numbers that matches their name in folder in my computer. I used Excel to chart them on, adding the hybridizer and year. Then I put my digital camera and photo editing software to work. I took photos in the fall, or when I'm done dividing, of the irises in sections. With my editing program, I added numbers for each iris in that section.

Below is a small section of irises in one of my stock gardens, sort of bare now since I sold many over the summer. Will be filled again next year with more divisions from new irises.