My Iris Garden tour, they are GORGEOUS right now 

Your gonna be hooked now!

Thank you, I do love my Iris and keep getting more, though I am running out of space!

When they are blooming they can get top heavy. Mine will lean if it gets windy when they are blooming and it rocks them which loosens the roots, or if it rains and the blooms catch water making them more top heavy. Mine can also lean if they have to reach for the sun, we live in an area that is surrounded by tall evergreens and early in the summer the sun is behind the trees for part of the day.

@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse Thank you for explaining this to me and sharing these great tips! I had never thought about them catching rainwater. I will try to watch if they start leaning over and add more stakes.

Thank you, it was a spectacular year for the Iris. this year is looking pretty good too!

You are so welcome!

Sadly, I am not licensed to ship out of California. But here is a link to a local Iris farm that was burned out in a wildfire a couple years ago but have rebuilt and will open again in 2024. They will be able to ship! irisfarmer.com/490.html

You are so welcome, I do love Iris.

This was early last June. I do love hand me down plants with a history. They make the garden extra special.

Yes, I do wish they lasted longer but I do also enjoy the transition to the summer blooms also. They would compete for attention. This year they have lasted longer than usual from our very cool weather. I do love the chickadee too, its song just screams 'Summertime'!

Welcome to my channel! My soil varies around all my gardens. The front has heavy clay in some portions but I keep amending. Along the side it has been amended a lot as well. The back was junk fill and is quite sandy and doesn’t hole moisture well but again, I keep amending with compost, chicken manure and alfalfa hay mulch. It is an ongoing process, I have been at it for about 20 years.

Not yet! I need to check into that.

You are so welcome. I did not realize that Beverly Sills was a rebloomer. I, unfortunately, rarely get a rebloom as my season is too short. But that is good to know.

You are so welcome

Thank you! I hope thisyears bloom is as good as last.

Thank you, I don't remember purchasing one called Thornbird but I have been given some that I do not have the names for.

Thank you, I do love Iris.

Wonderful! When I first started gardening decades ago, I did not join but was able to visit many local gardening club members and they were so generous with sharing starts, tuber, rhizomes etc. Most of my garden back then was created with all the plants gifted to me by others. And they took me under their wing and taught me a lot along with my Grandmothers who were avid gardeners. Both veggie and flower. They lived through the Great Depression and had so much to teach me about being able to create beauty when you have NO money. I will always be grateful.

Thank you! This year they really were gorgeous and I was so happy as last year we had a late hard freeze that ruined most of the buds.

It really is coming along better than I anticipated. I am trying to think of what to incorporate to keep the color going. After the Iris fade there will be gaps but I am also trying not to overcrowd it. A balance needs to be found but I will have so much fun finding it!

Thank you, so much!

I hope you can get some too.

You are so welcome

That is what a friend kept saying when she walked through last week. Just Wow! It has been an spectacular show this year.

Thanks for watching! Thankfully, I have not had much issues with either. Now the gophers, they are another issue entirely. Typically, they have not bothered my Iris much but this past winter they really wreaked havoc in the Secret Cottage Garden, most of my Iris back here are just gone.

I add compost as needed and some of my chicken litter from the pen in Fall. I try to not get too heavy handed with nitrogen as the Iris don't need it. I sometimes will mulch with leaves from the neighbors as a weed block or some fir bark mulch when I can get my hands on it.

Thank you! I do enjoy them so much.

Thank you 😊It was really outstanding this year.

I agree, whole heartedly!

You should!

I do love my Iris, they are such tough yet easy to grow flowers! The array of colors available is just mind boggling.

I have Irish follage. But they didn't bloom, why? Do they require a lot of sun? Please help me to grow blooming iris. I live in Illinois, zones 5a-5b.

@@moniquehall4991 Mine bloom in full sun, and part shade. Are they brand new? It may take a little while. If you have had them a while they may need to be divided, they also dont like to be planted too deeply. I also fertilize mine

@@moniquehall4991 Yes, they do like the sun. But you don't give a lot of details. Are the crowded? Have you divided them in the last 3 years? Did you have any late freezes? See my all about IRIS Blog post with links to more videos for more help: www.flowerpatchfarmhouse.com/how-to-plant-grow-and-propagate-iris/

Sounds great! You will love it. I hope all of mine do as well as they did last year.

Thanks for stopping in, glad you enjoyed the Iris, I do hope they do as well next year!

I do believe that is Bee's Jubilee.

I grew them well when I lived in a zone 9, lots of heat through the summer but it was a more Mediterranean climate. We would get 100-degree days consecutively for a couple months. Maybe your winters don't get quite cool enough. But on the up side, you can grow many plants I only dream of.😁

@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse I don't think it's the heat but the tropical humidity that causes the irises not to do well. My winters get really cold ... last winter it was below zero and around zero so I lost many native plants. Irises don't like being continuously wet and Arkansas is subtropical with 75% humidity. But my elephant ears love this climate. They get 7 ft tall and with heavy mulch, they over winter outside. But I love, love, love your garden! :)

@@alien11able LOL, see I told you things grow great for you that don't do well for me. I struggle to grow Elephant Ears but I do love them. I planted 9 this year in hopes of finding a spot somewhere in my gardens they will do well in. 😆

this is the link to their site: www.schreinersgardens.com/collections/shop-bearded-iris

Muito obrigada pela sua atenção e ajuda. Portugal

I usually just use what I have, leaves, straw or the local organic turkey farm sells its compost. I do have weeds but I plant so thickly that they are either not visible or choked out. Starship Enterprise is one of my favorites!

I buy the rhizomes from reputable companies then I divide and replant the ones that need it, when they need it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mJ8Ju7Jfu4U.htmlsi=0Ep0u_vgXU1zsiOl

When I have visited many of the Iris farms they say it does not do well for them. It increases like crazy for me!

Well I sure can't find anyone who has starship enterprise and I've wanted some so bad I absolutely love that one

Gardening is very relaxing. Please see previous comment for info on my lack of ability to ship. So sorry!

Thank you, they were stellar this year and such a delight!