Irises: Why no blooms this year ?, 1 by Wandasflowers

Wandasflowers wrote:
An iris rhizome stores energy for the blooms. It only blooms ONCE and then has babies & dies. The new babies can take 1-3 years to get big enough to bloom. If you get alot of blooms one year, you usually don't get many the next year.

The hard freeze we had in April froze most of my dwarf buds and damaged many of my TB iris leaves. Many blooming stalks just rotted & fell off. Nasty. Other iris have buds up and readyiong to bloom. I know it won't be as good as last year, but I will get some blooms.