Irises: transplanting help:), 1 by HappyJackMom

HappyJackMom wrote:
Don't worry about them, like I said Iris are tough. Most of our iris don't have their rhizomes above the soil anymore! They aren't planted that way, they just seem to burrow down further over their first winter. I uncover the ones I can reach, but they still seem to bloom and are doing well. We have had tulips and daffodils go so deep we can't dig them up to move them to other spots in the garden. My DH is getting desperate, I think he's going for the neighbors backhoe after the foliage dies down! I imagine, we will have the same problem with the lilies. As you can guess, we live in the high mountains of AZ where the winters can get severe with bitter cold and high winds. Though we have had some snow this winter, we have only had 1.12" of measurable rain fall. If the Monsoon doesn't bring enough rain this summer, our forest is really in trouble.