I am pretty new to Iris. Last year in the fall I divided and moved a huge bunch to another bed. Now I see that very few are blooming or putting out spikes. So, does this mean that they will bloom next year? Another way to put it: Do newly divided iris skip a year and come back to bloom the next year?

I will say that this seems the trend. When I got the iris, the first year they did not bloom (just leaves but no flowers). Then I had a lot of good blooms. Then I moved them and no blooms again.

By the way, I have only had Iris for about 3 years so I am not into the life cycle they have. Can anyone go through the year by year growing cycle? Thanks. Katy.

Iris, just like most things have their own way of doing things on an individual basis that can also be affected by a lot of other factors, like weather, time of transplant, soil conditions, amount of sun light, etc. I have some irises that when transplanted will always take a year off from blooming, others will always seem to bloom the next year. No one size fits all with irises.