Ok, I have the most clueless of newbie questions...I am struggling here trying to decide how I want to plant the iris beds in the front of the house. If I plant for a big show - all blooming at the same general time, I'll have nothing but foliage after the bloom. So do I want to stagger the bloom times? Then I won't have color combos but I'll have extended color for the spring. Then it dawned on me; I can see where a cultivar says mid. Or early mid. Or mid late...etc. But what does this actually mean? How much overlap is there - do these designations average 2 week segments of time, more, less? Trying to figure out when in the season I might expect bloom is very confusing to me. From early to late, how many weeks of bloom time are we talking about? Thanks!
