Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Garlic Lovers Thread - Growing and Eating in the MAF, 0 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Jill--

I was more thinking about digging up the Platycodons. But--I know the iris may have to be dug up first.
Yes! Irises are easy to dig and re-pant. Maybe it should have been done earlier in the fall.
Not sure spring is a good time....

The irises are crowded. I already dug up several and potted them in pots and gave them away
as Christmas presents.
I had some I dug up from my Aunt and Uncle's yard after they both had died (1993)
and the house was about to be sold. My uncle was quite the organic gardener.
He had these beautiful, deep purple iris. I wanted to preserve them in my garden.

This past weekend I went to our "Cousin's Christmas get-together" in VA.
I took 4 pots of these irises to now pass on to his Son and Grandchildren. Even to one Great-Granddaughter.
I promised her i would--as I could not go to her HS Graduation. It will be a nice "carry over'....

Same as I dug out some other Iris from my neighbor's yard--as the house sat empty for 2 years before my
Pakistani neighbors moved in and cut down every shrub and dug up everything growing in the ground
and got rid of it. Glad I took some while i could.

Gita