WINTER IRIS
DIVIDE AND REPLANT. Now that the winter flowering iris (I. stylosa) has finished blooming and new growth is commencing, dividing and replanting can be done. This plant flowers best when well established and a year or two may elapse after replanting before flowers will be produced again. Specimens which are doing well need not be disturbed, unless it is desired to increase the number of plants at the expense of flower production. Failure to bloom is often the result of being set in an unfavourable position. The best position is at the foot of a sunny wall and the soil, although it need not be rich, should contain plenty of grit or sand: it must be well drained. If the soil is clay, remove it to a depth of two feet, place six inches of stones in the bottom and fill up with gritty soil; set the plants so that they are pressed closely against the wall. Make the soil firm and water them in. This iris produces an .abundance of fragrant lavender blue flowers during winter, when flowers of that shade are rather scarce.. I
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 October 1940, Page 9
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