While July gardening chores revolve around watering, weeding, deadheading and helping plants through the heat, those chores might include transplanting bearded iris and watching for powdery mildew on ...

If you brought any house plants outside for the summer, now is the time to think about bringing them back inside. Make sure they are insect free. Begonias are shown in an outdoor pot in a western ...

Dig a hole about two to three times the size of your division. Place your transplant in the hole at the same depth it was ...

1. Rhizomes have heaved out of the ground. When an iris is overgrown, crowded rhizomes shift against each other like tectonic plates until they erupt out of the soil. It’s not exactly an earthquake, ...

Many of the perennial plants in our landscapes are slowing down at this time of year. With fall and winter drawing near, a season of dormancy is approaching for these plants. Not so for Louisiana ...

Showy irises are easy-to-grow, tall perennial flowers that are typically pretty hardy. That means you don’t often have to dig up and store the bulbs or rhizomes over winter. However, there are times ...

Q: We brought iris bulbs from our family home in Michigan to plant in our Georgia flower beds. They are presently in our garage. How, and when, should we plant them here? — Justin Kollmeyer, Fayette ...

Iris expert Roxie Nall will provide a hands-on demonstration on how to dig, groom and successfully plant irises now for beautiful spring blooms next year. The “You Can Dig It” iris class takes place ...