Leslie - It's Frilled Enchantment, one of my top 50 JI's! Mixing in very wet peat, along with manure, is sure to help any JI perform well. Two more photos of Frilled Enchantment are attached.

Sherry - I'm sure JI's would love growing at the edge of a pond. Thanks for the compliment.

Arlene that is breathtaking!

I am certainly going to add that one to my wish list! Such lovely photos!

Me too!!!

Neal, don't remember on what thread we talked about Orange Harvest bearded, but I could find THIS thread--I reseated some rhizomes that I know are OH in a holding pen until you are ready for them next year.



Back to our regularly scheduled Japanese Iris conversation.

Thank you, Tom, Leslie, Debra and Marilyn!

While each is beautiful by itself, it's in gardens where they really shine.

Debra - I tried keeping my varieties of Louisiana irises apart by using rocks, bricks, stones, slate, etc. They totally ignored me and went on growing and mixing together! How rude of them.

Oh my Arlene!

Those photos took my breath away! Your garden is amazing!

I have ten LA's that I wanted to grow close but I wanted to keep them from intermingling if I could. I planted each one in a plastic pot. I used a very large old zinc wash tub and made drainage holes in the side of the tub about three or four inches from the bottom with a nail. Then I filled the tub with garden soil until it was level with the bottom of the pots. I cut the bottoms of the pots out and sat the pots on the soil. I filled around each pot with the same soil until it is almost level with the tops of the pots. The thinking behind this was that the roots could go all the way down freely while the side of the individual pots would keep them from intermingling. The irises are thriving there as the very bottom of the tub will hold water a bit longer than the soil in the top of the tub. Whether or not they stay put is something I will just have to see in the future.

Arlene, I just gasped, "clutched my pearls", and was thoroughly blissed looking at your pics! Perfection I want to strive toward! Thank you for sharing those glorious glimpses into your garden!

Debra, thank you so much- how exciting! Your rocks gave me the idea I need to do something like that with my Daffodils, I'm often a little off when planting new ones and overlap clumps...ooops!

Arlene, that last photograph is breathtaking.

Glad I could help, Neal.

Off topic for a moment, but I would love to see photos of your daffodil clumps Neal! I'm planning on shopping for more of them next year. Any hints on which ones and where to buy them would be greatly appreciated.

Rob, some from this spring are here: http://garden.org/thread/view_...
..and here: http://garden.org/thread/view_...

And I've added several images to the data base too, but I'm not sure how to search for pics from specific users. Can you even do that? Oh, but you can click on my profile and I think there's a link to my data base entries. Perhaps post in that Daffodil thread to discuss there, and hopefully hear from other mild winter gardeners growing Daffs too, but I do have some recommendations for you

Another reference for you, Rob.

Thank you Neal!

Now back to drooling at Arlene's beautiful garden.



Cross posted with you Deb! Thank you too!

You are welcome. Thought that was easier than trying to remember which ones OHG said grow well in warm zones.

Thanks, everyone! It's music to my ears.

I grow lots of daffodils as well but do not keep them tagged with names and keep them far apart so there is no co-mingling. Tomorrow I have to lift an old clump and replant it. I'm not looking forward to the work.

Arlene...looking at your pics caught my breath...and don't know if I can start breathing again! Your garden is so beautiful! You are right, the JI's really do shine in the garden! I'm having climate envy...look how lovely and green everything is!!! Living in a semi arid location has it's advantages...but I'll never have a garden that is so drop dead gorgeous! Ah well, I do the best I can! Thanks for sharing...and please anytime you want please share more!!!

Thanks, Marilyn. We can send help if you need it!

Don't waste a moment of your life with climate envy. We all have our issues and mine are deer that enter from all sides but they do not eat any irises.

Here's a night shot: