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Bearded Iris CultureThe Best Time to divide and plant Bearded Iris is July, August and September. Keep Bearded iris dry until after planting then soak well, continuing every few days, if no rain, to get the roots started and new green foliage. It is better to plant when you receive. If unable to plant, keep in dry cool place until you can plant, a week or two will work. Irises that you receive should bloom the following spring after planting, as with any flower, rarely they may not. They need sun at least 5 to 6 hours a day or full sun. Bone Meal is perfect to plant with, working into soil around each iris. Avoid nitrogen, the first number on your fertilizer bag. Nitrogen can rot your rhizomes. If your weather is hot and humid as ours is, please no nitrogen. They can survive without nitrogen, took me a long time to realize that after rotting too many. In areas where you don’t have humidity still use low nitrogen such as #5, keeping away from rhizomes, and high on the last two numbers but definitely no nitrogen in the fall.
Bearded Irises are very easy to grow in raised beds. Reasons for no bloom are, not enough sun, planted too deep, soil not worked for long periods of time and iris need 25% oxygen (loose soil) for best results. Mound iris, planting bearded iris with the top of the rhizome barely showing and the roots well covered. Do not mulch. Bearded iris like clean beds! You may mulch between iris but only in the very late Fall and then remove from plants the first of March or later in colder zones. I let nature cover with leaves in the fall and winter, knowing that nature does a lot better than I can. Irises love cold weather and do require some for good bloom! PLACING AN ORDERA bearded iris minimum order of $35.00 is required to ship excluding shipping Charge. Price is for one Rhizome unless noted. Shipping Iris: Gift iris will be given with every minimum order. Shipping will begin July 2nd ‘07 to September 7th. Shipping fee is $9.00, all over 4 rhizomes, .25 cents each. Payment: cash, check, money order- Checks made Payable to: Nina Morgan must clear before shipping. WELCOME TO MY IRIS WEB SITEI hope that you will enjoy our Iris web site. There are many irises listed and available with lots of pictures taken in our garden. You may give a large list that I may select Gifts from. If you allow subs you may add to this list. The sooner you get your orders and payment to me the better chance you have of getting all those must haves. I hardly ever have to sub, but if subbing, you will be pleased. We ship nice mature sanitized rhizomes. Be sure that you notice when ordering Dwarf, and smaller iris, that are not listed as Tall Bearded, the rhizomes will be smaller and most always I send more than one Dwarf rhizome, as they are much smaller. Bonus gift iris will be given on every order, small orders, 20% of your order, excluding shipping fee. Larger orders will receive more generous bonus.
Thank you for your Iris Orders. We show our appreciation with pleasing rhizomes and extras!
LEGEND S- represents Standards- the 3 petals standing at The Top F- Falls- the 3 petals below B- Beards rest on the falls of each petal Exotic- Unusual Form, mostly blooming with out any Standards but all Falls Rhizomes- the root system is not a true bulb SA- Space Age- has Horns, Spoons, Forks, or Petaloids extending from Beards BB- Border Beard Usually 16 to 27” Smaller version of the Tall Bearded having smaller rhizomes and blooms, usually blooming w’ the Tall Bearded iris IB- Intermediates- 15 to 28”- Blooming early, immediately after the dwarf, early bloomer MTB- Miniature Tall Bearded- 16”- 25” Blooms Early and w’ Tall Bearded DB- Dwarf Bearded- 5 to 15” earliest blooming bearded iris Re- Rebloom- Repeats Bloom after first bloom, can be soon after, Summer, Fall or Winter. It is not unusual for our Iris Club Members to bring Bouquets to our Fall Meetings and to our annual Christmas Dinner- zone 7. We were frozen in ’05 and ’06- but every year prior, the past 10 Christmas Dinners) No global warming here!
Garden Awards of The American Iris Society As voted by Accredited Garden Judges HM- Honorable Mention- must be registered and introduced and is a prerequisite for all other awards Often HM will not be listed on my Descriptions when winning an AM AM- Award of Merit- awarded to all classes of Irises and is a prerequisite for all Medal Awards Cook---COOK-DOUGLAS MEDAL- Miniature Dwarf- Eligible after receiving an AM Knowl---KNOWLTON MEDAL- Border Bearded, after first winning an AM Sass--- HANS AND JACOB SASS MEDAL- Intermediate, after first winning an AM W-W Williamson-White Medal- Awarded to Miniature Tall Bearded, eligible after winning and AM Wister-- JOHN C WISTER MEDAL- To Tall Bearded- Eligible after first receiving an AM Dykes- DYKES MEMORIAL MEDAL- Highest award any iris can receive. All classes are eligible after receiving preliminary medal for class
All Awards are truly an honor and chosen from thousands. All are Beautiful! If you are new to iris and are in doubt what to choose you may like the award winners. However, so many are registered each year and many are overlooked or are not seen in gardens when in bloom to judge. I have listed the award winners for those who are serious Iris collectors. |