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Jul 5, 2014 6:06 AM CST
Name: Sharon
McGregor IA (Zone 4b)
Hemlady said:When my mother-in-law passed in 2003, we inherited her small cottage on a lake. She had planted there several irises. We don't get to visit the place but once a month during the summer to cut the grass and nothing has ever been done to the irises and they are thriving. Several years ago before I started to like irises, I tried digging them out and getting rid of them. No such luck, they all came back. So basically, they have really been neglected and when we do get a chance to see them bloom, they do very well. They are in a zone 4b garden and I am wondering if they are probably more of the historic type irises since they have been around for some time.


Can you describe them, Cindy? There are some very tough old irises that even grow in ditches around here.

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