Iris flowering - is this a problem
Emma28
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Just noticed that an iris I planted last summer has started flowering. At the start of February! There's very little foliage to support the growth. Will this weaken the plant at all? What (if anything) should I do?
Thanks!
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That's gorgeous.
The bulb iris' are spring flowering and often appear with the snowdrops. Some of mine are flowering too. Don't worry about the foliage - it will follow and that plant looks healthy enough to me. The only problem is later on in the year when you forget where you planted them and dig them up by mistake.
Which one is that?
It looks a bit solid for one of the reticulatas
In the sticks near Peterborough
I've had several clumps of Dwarf Iris flowering in a sheltered, shady border for about two weeks now. I doubt whether they'll 'recur' later in the spring, so I'll just enjoy them as they are brightening up an otherwise dull area right now! * It's raining heavily today, pic may follow - when it improves.....??
I've seen several clumps of dwarf iris flowering in city gardens and on sheltered verges - they're quite early most years , just even more so this year.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Same here - those show-off purple/blue little reticulas generally flower at the same time as snowdrops, I find.
A good place to see them en masse, if you are near enough, is in the winter garden walk at Anglesey Abbey. Not sure when their snowdrop weeks are, but the iris arwe usually abundant at the same time.