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Old garden
I have bought a house that has been left unoccupied for a long time. The garden was once lovely but sadly left to over grow. It's a cottage style garden with a mixture of shrubs and herbaceous perennials. I started by cutting back hard last year and to my surprise it's come back great but I have a big problam with rye grass in the borders. Itr's perticully difficult to remove from an area with geraium wargrave and mixed iris. Is there anything I can do. I really do not want to dig the border up and start again.
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Around two square metres
both the geranium and the iris have grown and merge in together over the years. In other parts of the garden I have managed to dig up the roots but the iris tubers in this area make it difficult to do.
Thanks for your reply water butts posted previous before reading yours.
I was hoping I could avoid this. But I know you are right!
I have just cut the geranium back to ground level as they had finished flowering/looked tired from dry weather. I don't know weather they will have second flush of flowers? So was thinking of doing it now, but I never give it a thought to leave it till the autumn.
I will lose all the geranium though as it would be impossile to do. Don't fancy the fine tooth comb option
Any advice on replanting the iris. I have never used them before. should I store the tubers over winter or replant into weed free bed.