Growing Louisiana Irises
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Read more: Bog and Water Culture of Louisiana Irises by Gordon Rabalais*
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The author is a long time member of the Society for Louisiana and has served/is serving as an officer and/or board member many times through the years. He is very active in local garden clubs, the American Iris Society (AIS) and the local region of AIS. Robert is a commercial fish farmer by profession and lives near Carlisle, AR.
In this article Robert shares his experiences gained from constructing and growing Louisiana irises in plastic lined beds, both raised and dug. He offers many recommendations including ways to amend the soil, bed construction, material to be used an lessons learned. Robert finds these type of beds to be easy to water and very good at reducing/conserving water. This method also allows beds to be made close to trees and large shrubs.
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Read more: Growing Louisiana Irises in Plastic Lined Beds by Robert Treadway*
One of the remarkable attributes of the Louisiana iris is its ability to grow in regular garden soil-or in a swamp. It is one iris that will absolutely thrive in containers. Watering is more easily controlled, and thus, growing in pots can be a major consideration in a water- starved area.
Everyone who has ever potted up a rhizome and then let it set for a year, or two, or even three, knows that Louisiana irises have a rugged will to live, even to prosper. This iris is clearly suited to pot culture.
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Read more: Growing Louisiana Irises in Pots by Tom W. Dillard*
by M. J. Urist
In the cold, short days of midwinter, the irises and I are enjoying the closest thing to real dormancy we get all year. While I lounge next to the woodstove sipping tea, reflecting on the past growing season and plotting next year’s gardening endeavors, the irises rest beneath a thick blanket of snow. The thirty and forty degree temperatures of late autumn and early winter, mild for our climate, would have been the harshest of conditions for their southern brethren. Even so, the robust fans of leaves, dutifully pared back to nubs in late summer, had managed to push out a foot or more of new growth before the snow fell. Often the first question I am asked is, “You can grow those up here?” Then will follow, “Aren’t they cold tender?” “You have to grow them in water, right?”
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