When we bought the house we raised our kids in, my mother-in-law arrived one October day with a bucket of 40 iris tubers.  3 years later – I kid you not – 3 years later when I went to split them out there were over 400!  I did that again 3 years later!  And they bloomed like crazy!  One long full row of purple.

Here, not so much.  My sister gave me some of her irises.  No blooms – lots of greens but no blooms.

I bought some from a local gardener – one year of blooms and no return the next year.  I bought some from a local, very reputable garden center – no blooms  the second year and no greens at all the third year.

So I have a plan, and a very good one I hope!  I am going to dig out the irises from my sister that don’t bloom here at the townhouse, and plant them at the land up north.  I think the soil up there is more like at our old house – rocky, gravelly.  Maybe they will bloom there.

First I have to solve my deer grazing dilemna up north, but then we should have a good test.