Canadian Gardening: For the love of Iris, 1 by echoes

echoes wrote:
Hi Carol. Thank you for posting that lovely photo. In response to your question about cutting back your irises after bloom, are you referring to the bearded? If so, I don't see any good reason to do that, unless you are digging them up and dividing them. It is not a practice that I see Ginny, or anyone else around here doing. Trimming off any diseased foliage would be a different matter though.

Here is one of my Siberians, Sparkling Rose.