7 Reasons Why Your IRIS is NOT Blooming | 

Thank you for sharing with us! I love watching gardening videos and seeing the different gardens around the world. A short story about sharing one's garden bounty. I was a rural mail carrier for 30 years and one year a customer that I have known for twenty of those years, gave me several large clumps of irises. I had gone back at the end of the work day to pick them up and she even took the time to demonstrate how to divide them. She was a wonderful woman, with one of the most beautiful cottage gardens I have ever seen. She had some beautiful heirloom varieties of flowers I have never seen before except in books. She shared her knowledge and she became a surrogate mom to me, especially after my mother passed away. She taught me about collecting the seeds every fall and about keeping a ledger or journal of the garden. As she got older, I would go by whenever I could to help her (she had no children of her own), but she was still out in the garden up until the day she died. She passed away peacefully in her sleep at the age of 101. I was stunned to be called to her lawyer's office soon after the funeral. She had left me part of her estate, the contents of her garden shed, and any plants I wanted from her garden. The shed was meticulously kept and well organized with a potting table in front of a wall of windows at the front and a small desk at the back. She even kept a rocking chair with a floor lamp next to it in there. She taught me the importance of cleaning, sharpening, and oiling your garden tools each fall so they would not rust over winter. (They sure don't make tools like these anymore). Many of the gardening tools she used were her mother's and kept them looking new, so they will be left to my family when I pass. I had just recently bought my first house and could not afford to buy the proper tools and plants to start my cottage garden. This was her gift to help me get started with my garden. The bulk of her estate went to the local garden club and the nature preserve she established when she was a younger woman. They will have enough money to keep them going for decades to come! Today, I have successfully established a cottage garden, and every year I watch those rare heirloom flowers bloom or the orange irises unfurl, I think of her. What a wonderful, generous woman and gardener she was.

Thanks for watching. Hope this helps you to get more Blooms. Happy gardening. Blessings. ❤.

Your irises are absolutely gorgeous! 😍 My son brought home a wagon full of irises a few years back that a neighbor had discarded. It took 2 years after planting before I got to see their blooms, an iridescent white! So pretty and with a rootbeer fragrance, my first irises and totally worth the wait. ❤ Thank you for the tips! Now, I won't worry if the rhizomes are peeking out, the ones I keep re-burying are the only ones not blooming.

Want to hear something funny? We have a new home on about 1.5 acres. The land was cleared before my home was built, and it was nothing but a field littered with garbage and such beforehand. Very unkempt. I have not planted a single thing besides a few trees but I noticed irises popping up under one tree, a sweet gum tree, in our yard! I couldn't believe it. Where did they come from?! No idea. But I am loving having them. I plan to add more iris bulbs in the spring. They have not bloomed as of yet. Just noticed them about two months ago here in North Central Texas, USA. They are short leaves still, about five or six inches, some a little taller, some a little shorter. We have very compacted clay here so I'm not sure how they grew without any amendment to the soil, nor without someone planting them. My guess is some squirrels or rabbits got into someone's iris bulbs and dropped them off here, maybe? That's my best guess but I'll never know for sure. Your irises are lovely! The purple is so stunning.

Beautiful!

Great information and beautiful flowers!

Absolutely beautiful ❤

This is well done! I'm going to check out your other videos now.

Thank you Marlene! Loved your presentation and tips! Will keep you informed.

🌿VERY HELPFUL 🌿

Marlene thank you for sharing your tips. Tfs 💜

Hi Marlene your garden is beautiful and thanks for the info ☺

Marlene, thank you for these tips. As a first time iris grower, I will apply them.

here watching Ive never tried to grow these there roots looks like a ginger root! yours are beautiful thanks for hte tips!

Beautiful video ❤

Like 8. soooooo beautiful iris flowers dear. What a purple color. Useful seven tips. Your gardens all flowers blooms any matter. They love you Marlene 👌♥️♥️♥️

These Iris looks so cute. Purple is my favorite color. You most definitely have that green thumb. Thanks for all of the tips. love it.

Very informative. Thanks for tips especially bonus tip. That covers other plants that we plant also. Good information.

Thanks for this video. It’s very informative and I especially liked the end with the summary. ❤

Another great vedios,wonderful sharing 👍👍👍😀😀🙋🏻‍♀️.

Your flowers are pretty. Love the color. I will definitely remember these tips while care for my Iris. Thank you for sharing.

Just had to subscribe after watching one video, pretty calming voice and great tips❤

Very helpful! Thank you !

Hi Marlen, another great and informative video. I love Iris plant. I have been very fortunate with mine, I planted them 3 years ago and they have been great 👍🏻 .. Thanks for these tips my dear take care and I will see you in your next video.

Great video. Thanks!!!

very pretty, I love the white and purple ones, mine are just blue, great video Marlene

Thanks for a great video, I have been looking for information about my irises and you have answered all my questions!!

They are very beautiful. I love the color purple I never knew ginger beard, flowers. Thank you for sharing.❤

Nice video.

I seen those Iris blooms , I subscribed . Thanks

Thank you so much for all this information. I now have a better idea as to what to do with my Irish plants. Your plants are so beautiful and I know what I will do in the Fall😊

Very helpful. Thank you ❤

I really enjoyed this video. It has so much information that i didn't realize. Thank you for sharing. Your irises are beautiful ❤❤

Thank you. I love my iris'and can't wait to plant them in more in the sun. Thank you for your help

I have never grown iris'a, they are so pretty!! Love the purple color, great info!! 💟💜

awesome information. I love your clear and precise explanation on how to take care of the plant. New subscriber.

I just found your video. I had just taken up iris that are not thriving, and this is so helpful! Thank you. Looking forward to more of your gardening knowledge!

Great information thanks for sharing ❤

Thanks for sharing ❤

I just planted a bunch of iris bulbs. Thank you for this video.

I enjoyed your video. In my small, very sunny front garden, I have the common blue irises plus large, tall two-colour irises that start blooming when the common ones are done. These large ones are white with dark purple edges. People come close up to take photos of them as they walk by my house. I've had both varieties in the same bed for about 10 years, where they got too overcrowded. I dug them all out and selected only the best and healthiest looking ones, with good roots, that had never bloomed and I divided them. I had so many, that I was able to share lots with 4 other people. I mixed some bone meal into the soil and re-planted them in the same bed, nicely spaced out. For the next two years, I did not have a single bloom, until this year. Even though I continued doing everything as before, it seems that they just needed their two years to recover. I kept checking with the other 4 people and their experience was exactly the same. We all have lots of beautiful blooms this year.

Lovely flowers my dear and great tips & advice on how to care for them 🤗🥰

Thanks so much! I bought a 4 pack of Apple Girls and plan on planting them tomorrow here in the Chicagoland area. Maybe I'll have flowers next year.

Thanks so much for the tip.

What an interesting video! I would figure that the irises would be able to bloom on its own time, but it's good to see the steps necessary to help them bloom.

Thanks for sharing, however, playing music while you speak is over distracting

I have not any Iris. But this is great to know. I am starting a little garden and it's doing great 😂 keeping my fingers crossed 😂 😂

Marlene, I also moved and have a lot of iris that are overgrown and solid shade. I am in NC. So I am learning about iris etc. thanks Mary

This is an interesting video Marlene! I was always puzzled by the IRIS,but you have cleared up my thoughts. Your garden is colorful and beautiful.. Was a pleasure to have learnt so much about flowers.. Cheers!!❤💜💛

very good 💞😊👍👍👍👍👍😘

I have Iris plants and wish that the blooms would last longer. I am going to put some of your suggestions into play and see what happens. Thank you so much for sharing. It will be a few more weeks before it gets warm enough for our plants to bloom. 🌷🌷🌷

Your voice is so soft and calming. I loved the video. I wush i could grow Iris. Our climate is extremely rainy and wet with high air humidity and cold temperatutes even in summer and heavy clay soil. I guess they will sit there and rot. Dutch iris are doing somewhat well but they bloom only once in spring for me not both in spring and fall. There is this endemic very miniature iris to balkan peninsula country. It looks the same but 10 times smaller. I have so fond memories of them blooming in the woods.

The house i bought came with some amazing irises. Ive been here for two years. I saw them bloom last year but very sparingly. So this spring i dug and divided them. I also composted alot of the rhyzome(sry, i had no takers so into the compost bin).

Hi I will check first thing in the morning for pests and remove bad foliage After watching your video I learned a lot

Wow! you are quite knowledgeable Marlene and you explain so well. Your garden is so pleasant and full of life. Those river rocks are so pretty. Thanks for sharing💖

Thank you! Mine didn't bloom last year. I surely want to see some this year!

I live in Mississippi. We often don’t get enough really cold weather for bulbs and rhizomes to bloom well. I was hoping this video would contain info on fertilizers which might help get blooms even with a lack of the super cold temps. We had some very cold weather this past winter, and I have been amazed at how abundantly all my plants have flowered this spring.

I’m not quite sure how I got to your video, but the information was very useful. I moved in my house about 25 years ago. I had never grown an Iris in my life. I had a co-worker who loved them and had to separate hers. She asked if I would like some. I said, sure but they may not live at my house because I don’t have full sun anywhere. However, I figured they’re free so what do you have to lose? She loves purple so she gave me a box of Irises from deep dark purple to purple and white, lavender etc. I alternated them along the side of my house. The next year I had the most spectacular display of Irises. I feel in love with them and over the years have collected many other colors. I still have all the purple ones and have shared them with many other people. I just wanted to say, although I don’t have any full sun at my house, they’re do just fine. What I fine is they don’t seem to multiply as fast but they bloom just fine. One other thing, if you are in the habit of mulching every year, you may not want to do that with Irises. That will surly stop them from blooming if the rhizomes get buried under Al that mulch. I don’t mulch.

🙏 Thank you

good information I dont have any Iris's never tried to keep them

Nice video. I just subscribed.

I'm so glad i watched tissue i just transplant an iris but definitely too deep and i may just have to get a new one as I did seed simular signs of pests. Question, If the rhizome has multiple heads or only has a small amount of pest damage can you cut to a health part of the rhizome and still use it?

Wow this was very informative. I recently moved into a home with Iris and they bloomed for about one or two weeks and have since stopped. There are far too many in the space based on what I'm learning. Can I move some out now or should I wait until fall?

Catnip is a great companion plant for iris. The areas i have them together, there are no pest problems.

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Hey Marlene, great information. Just to clarify. At one point do you clip the flowers back? And are you ever supposed to cut back the fan leaves or just leave them? We recently moved into a house and we must have a hundred iris and daffodils all around the house. Some over crowded. I want to take care of them the best I can though!

Beautiful plant

Hi watching

I was hoping you would've address my issue in your great video. My blooms are falling over and some cases breaking...this is new problem for me planted in 2018 should I just support the stems but I never had to in the past plus I have several stems to support so it's more work than I'd like in spring, any suggestions ? Thank you.

I just was clearing out a section where most of my irises are located - (very recently new gardener - and I uncovered bunches of over crowded ryzones that I have now gently removed - is there anything I can put them in to revive them - our season for irises is almost over and I found this clump as I was removing dead leaves -

My brother planted some irises for my mom , you could see the rhizomes . I told him says it’s the way it should be ! I added more soil , the ones I didn’t get to died from cold ! I don’t believe in just setting them in little soil, they need more especially in our cold zone !

Helo chào bạn. Live .👏😁👍☝🔔🔔🍾🥂❤

I used to grow tall bearded irises back when I lived in Pennsylvania. But now l been living in Florida for 10 years and during that whole time I haven't been able to get them to grow here. And I was wondering if you have any idea as to why that might be?

Hi my bearded iris were blooming beautifully. Then some of the flowers ready to open were wet and wilted.?.

My main problem is lack of rain. If I get too sick to go out to water them they won't die, but they won't bloom either.🤔🙄🤷😎💖💖💋👵🐺🖖🌵

Don't leave rhe whole reisome above ground. Just the top half. I have never had bugs bug the irises. Cold is all that hurts mine. I put phosphate on to Increase bloom.

Are they good for potted plants??

Hi I watered my bearded iris too much plus the rain Now the blooms are wilted before fully bloomed. Help,!

My iris bloomed but turned white in stead of the lavender color. And my peonies turned yellow instead of pink. Is this a soil issue. If so what do I add and how much?

How many bulbs should you plant together?

Beautiful garden and beautiful flowers 💐 😍 ❤️ very nice sharing big like and subscribe done friend 👍 ✔️

We planted ours last year. And there are no blooms. Still too young?

Not seeing the link to depth of planting....

The mulch is not a good idea because Iris boars hide in the mulch, so I had to remove all the mulch from my irises

There is only one reason why my irises didn't bloom: the porcupines ate the rhizomes lol

There're two primary reasons Iris do not bloom. The corm should never be planted, rather laid into a shallow trench with the top of the corms exposed to the Sun, and Iris do NOT like to be crowded and will not bloom if not divided every 2-3 years.

Okay well you didn't talk about fertilizer?

Shame,about the backcrond music,😡😡

This was a great video. TFS 👍🏾 I just planted irises last year that my aunt gave me and they have not bloomed. Such a great video to help me understand why. 🙏🏾🫶🏽👍🏾

What an interesting video! I would figure that the irises would be able to bloom on its own time, but it's good to see the steps necessary to help them bloom.