Anyone know anything about these beautiful irises? I order 12 bulbs from Dutch gardens last year....they have all come up and are blooming beautifully.
Do these multiply like other iris? Unable to find much info on them at all doing a Google search.
The attached pix is the one from their catalog, as I can't get the colors o come true with my digi camera (comes out all umber/orange)
They're a Dutch iris http://plantsdatabase.com/go/55942/ I havn't had much luck with Dutch irises here... they tend to be short lived.
beautiful!!!
Thanks poppysue....dutch iris from Dutch Gardens hmmmm
I will assume thna that they will behave like other varieties of DI.
Thanks :-)
Notmartha, the pic really doesn't do them justice.
The color contrast of green, purple, and yellow of the 'eye' is just stunning.
Rikerbear, I live in Northern CA, and my Dutch Iris do just fine in my garden. It does get pretty cold here, but no snow. I haven't dug them up yet, so I don't know how well they multiply, but they seem to do pretty nicely on my back porch.
Thanks LadyRowan.... :-)
I had to relocate a Dutch Iris today, there are MANY bulbs. What should I do with them? Plant now or wait until fall?? They have already bloomed this year. When I plant, how many should I plant in one location??? TIA!!! SherryLike
You can certainly plant them now.....space them a bit to allow for growing room. I personally like groupings of 5 to 7 bulbs/tubers.
And for heavens sake send me all the extras...... LOL!!! hehehehehehehehe
RikerBear
Marc
Many thanks, RikerBear!!!! Sun or shade, fertilizer, etc???????
Do you like Glads???? SherryLike
Sun to partial shade....manure top dressing in Spring. Regular watering (don't over water)
Thi sis just how I treat mine....I ma NOT an expert by any means, so someone may have more or different info for you.
And yes I like Glads ( I have approximately 400 )
How would these do in a wine barrel with annuals (or maybe geranium) planted over them?
I don't know why that wouldn't work....
I got some 'Eye of the Tiger' to try last year, and I just loved them! As a bonus, they bloomed at the same time as the first big flush of blooms on my new Penstemon smallii plants -- and the "color echo" with the purple shades was wonderful! I know bulbs and perennials can both have somewhat random bloom times their first year, but I'm hoping these will continue to bloom together.
I put in 50 more 'Eye of the Tiger' this fall in the front of my lily bed, where (coincidentally enough LOL) I planted some more penstemon last summer. I put some Allium christophii in the same bed... I wonder if they'll bloom together? Time will tell....
Jill,
Be sure to take pictures!!!
You bet! I thought I'd gotten a photo this spring, but it didn't turn out well, and then a couple of days later (before I managed to repeat the shot) we had a big rainstorm that made the blooms a bit tattered... oh well... I've got a great picture in my mind's eye, but that's hard to share, LOL.
:-)
I'm excited about the spring - this is my first year planting bulbs. Wednesday I planted 50 each of Casablanca and Sky Beauty, with 25 daffodils intermingled. In the fall, I built some planter boxes (which are supposed to be also dog blockades, but it's not working) that are 2' deep and 6'x3'. One has 150 purple and white tulips of different varieties, plus purple bearded iris hart sent, and daylily "Dark Wonder," also...well, purple.
Do you suppose lilies in the same barrel would be too croweded?
I planted loads of Eye Of the Tiger last year along with lots of other Dutch Irises.My reblooming rate is not great in this hot humid location.I'll probably get less than half blooming again this year with even less next year.But I love them so much that I keep on planting them.
Well, hey, downscale! :-)
I'm finally catching up!
Downscale..................How deep are you planting your Iris?
Bleek.... how deep should we be planting them?? :-)
I only went 4"....but can add more dirt...
In the South I would plant them at least 8 inches deep and mulch heavily so to keep the ground as protected from the sun as possible.
Also....fertilize them...a lot of people do not do any of this. The first time after planting fertilize, then when thay come up in the Spring and once more right after flowering. Subsequent years.....when they come up in the Spring and once again right after flowering. Also dead-heading is important as well as letting them die off completely. I know this is an ugly sight, but that is part of nature.
Thanks bleek
I am not planting them deep enough.Will do so next year.
Oh, I have been told that planting Iris too deep will prevent them from blooming. Here in Ky. we plant them with the tops of the rizomes just barely covered. I am zone 6, and I have good luck with mine.
defoecat, these Dutch Iris are true bulbs and get planted below the surface, unlike the Tall Bearded Iris rhizomes that most of us know
Hmmm.... I planted mine no more than 5 inches down, with about 3 inches of soil plus a couple inches of mulch over the bulb. I was going by the rule of thumb to plant 2-3 times as deep as the bulb's diameter... since my Dutch Iris bulbs were about 1 1/4 inches across, I thought I had them a bit on the deep side, if anything. It's not quite as hot (or at least it's not hot for as long) here, so maybe they'll be OK? Or should I be piling on more compost & mulch?
Critter.............You should be OK. It is meant to be for areas of the country where it gets quite hot and dry and then you plant the bulbs 1-2 inches deeper. This not always works, but it will help. Also planting bulbs in the shade will help them. Dutch Iris and Daffodils will always do better in the South then Tulips.
Dutch iris will be in shade once the heat starts. I plan to put hostas or something over them that likes the shade, too, with lots of mulch. The area where they're planted also has a tendancy to get covered over in lemon mint, which I have no expectations of ever eradicating, but perhaps containing.
I'm not south anywhere (almost as far north in CA as one can get), but it is hot and dry in the summer. Too wet in the winter. I hope I didn't plant too late, but my books say through December. Dutch iris planted in October are already little grasslike blades about 6" tall.
I'll be thrilled if my tulips do their display just one year; I hadn't planted them before now, and probably won't again, but next spring will be special.
4p be sure to take pictures. Tulips are so beautiful in mass.
Those are very pretty ones. I have only the typical blue and yellow dutch iris, but they have been coming back 3 years for me. They are planted about 3 or 4 inches deep.
I love dutch Iris! I have always had them in my landscape.
thanks, bleek & BGmom... sounds like mine should be fine where they are! I've had Iris reticulata (the little mini ones) for several years now, but last fall was the first time I planted regular Dutch iris... I love them too!
If you plant bearded iris too deeply, they will not bloom but they are a rhizome, not a bulb like Dutch Iris which can be planted much deeper.
I have learned from Bleek to fertilize 3 times a year and my blooms are much larger because of it. Thanks, bleek.
You're welcome. Just do not make them obese.
