Pacific Northwest Gardening: planting new woodland garden......I hope, 1 by tillysrat

tillysrat wrote:
Hey Anne
This will be my first time at the saving seed thing, no guaranties and it only costs a stamp and your time to plant them. But you never know unless you try.
As far as the Irises I don't think I need any at this point, I have 72 coming this fall, and have yet had the time to get the bed ready. LOL
And I got a hands on lesson on divided them, they are not as fragile as you think. I have 3 paper bags full in the shed that we pulled from her garden last June.
Dig them up, look for the mother plant most likely the center. then cut the young rhizome from the mother. Discard anything that looks bad. Then cutting the leaves leave at least 6" cut in a slant. move, store, send. you can write on the leaves to ID.
When planting, which I did not know (real dummy here) Do not buried the rhizome, just the little roots, it will on its own pull itself down. and never put bark on them. They don't like it, gravel or just dirt.
Wish you where just a little closer, I could show you. trying to type it Sucks. LOL
Hope someone else can help me here

What to see a pic of the area so I can maybe give a thought.
Tills

My Hosta bed