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By Pip_c

Southern Sydney, NSW, Australia

My bulbs (daffs, irises) have finished flowering - do i wait until the foliage has died back before removing the bulbs from the soil and can I plant them again next year? Thanks for all your advice about my bulbs... this is the first year I've done the bulb thing seriously.....




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Basically yes, though I'm not sure what type of Iris you have.

24 Sep, 2010

 

Pip we never lift our daffs. from the ground - with the irises it will delpend which they are.

24 Sep, 2010

 

Confirm Daffs are best left in if possible.

24 Sep, 2010

 

Thanks all :o) not sure what the irises are... your standard bargain bin bulbs

24 Sep, 2010

 

Iris as actual bulbs are probably "Dutch" Iris, Pip, which I would either leave in the ground--especially if you can let them dry out over the summer--or throw them away: it's hard to get good conditions for storage out of the ground. Broad leaves in fans from ginger-like rhizomes is probably Bearded or Siberian Iris, neither of which like to be out of the ground for long--again, leave in, or toss, or maybe wait until late summer and transplant. Daffodils can be stored longer and survive, but it's bad for them.

25 Sep, 2010

 

Thanks Tugbrethil :o)

25 Sep, 2010

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