Thanks so much, John. I'm just lovin how they look in the house and happier now knowing they will not be harmed and will return again outside.

Thank you!!! I have several hundred irises (left over from a very excited retired ornamental gardener) and have felt overwhelmed. They have flowered less and less over the last 7 seasons. I see how much love they need. I'm getting to work, and making new friends by splitting. Great tips!

great video, thanks for showing what they look like after they grew back!

I've just discovered you can plait the old leaves and make a basket or something out of them. Great information, thanks :)

Thanks for posting the result of cutting often times that is missed so I really appreciate that

Thanks for tutoring. I am new in gardening and I love Iris. My neighbor gave me this plant and I transplanted it in my yard but did not cut the leaves. So, now I will go and cut them.

John this is a great instructional video. I appreciate your passion!

Excellent video with great direction. Just what I wanted to know. Thanks!

Thank you very much! Your videos are all very informative, and I appreciate them.

Thank you. This is exactly the information I was looking for.

(that is my bros pic) thank you for the video, I m in California, but this was helpful. I was in the middle of weeding and thought I better check into what I should do with the irises.

Thanks so much for these wonderful tips!

This is exactly what I needed to know...Thank you!

Thank you so much for the information on how to take care of my iris. I don't know much about gardening but I will be back with more questions. It is so nice to have a place to go on the net and find out gardening tips. I am handicapped and do not have a car so this is great. I have liked and subscribed!!!

Thank you for the before and after. Seems with "how to" videos on the care they rarely show the results. BRAVO!

thanks for sharing this John. Good tips.

As someone else mentioned and now I can't find--he is in Colorado. Oklahoma/Texas need to wait until September to dig, clip and prepare soil. Otherwise, best video I've seen for info on Irises!

Did not expect to hear about newtown Conneticut. But glad you taught me more about Iris plant care

To the point and easy to follow. Thanks

great tutorial. Thanks from Atlanta.

Thank you. this is very helpful.

Thank you so much for posting this, it is exactly what I was needing to find out!

Thank I'm going to try this in a couple of weeks 💥👍🏼💥

Good video and thank you for your time. I have two bearded irises that bloomed about a month ago. The sides that have bloomed look ready to be cut like these in the video, but the plants are still growing stems on the other side and it looks like like they could flower again from this new growth. Should I cut the dead shoots and flower stalks that have bloomed and withered on the same plant? Would I cut the stems/foliage which have bloomed and withered and leave the fresh growth in case of more blooms even if it's on the same plant?

thanks, I love irises & have a few colors

I have a front yard here in Florida near Ocala that is shaded by large oaks. St. Augustine grass will not flourish as a yard so I planted in butterfly attracting plants, landscape rocks, etc., but have a border of iris (in large clumps) around my "yard" that have bloomed beautifully this year. Nice smallish white blooms, don't know the variety. I clip the seed pods off and they continue to bloom but now are exhausted except for a few hangers on. They are interspersed with a {variegated Aztec? (small blooms)}and all are getting out of hand and need to be pruned back. I will try cutting back as noted. It will leave clumps that I suppose will return. I have also noted some spreading taking place from the clumps.

thanks for sharing

Thanks for posting this- I live in Chicago and my irises have yet to bloom this year- we have many stalks with huge buds and I cannot wait- however- this past weekend they certainly caught a fungus. I know I have to cut them back and treat as best I can- I am wondering if you have ever had this happen. Almost every leaf/stalk has the speckles- didn't get my fall clean up this year due to delivering a baby- hoping for the best for next year I suppose!

Thanks for the info. Very useful. Side note, music in the background is distracting from you speaking or makes it hard to hear. Thanks again!

Thank you so much from a new gardener ! If I cut the flowers to display in a vase inside will it harm the plants?

Thank you

Thank you for the vid. I need to move the Iris to a new location. They just done flowering. When should I remove them? (I am in Georgia, zone 7B). Thanks

Thanks, when do we replant it? Cut to short it?

Hi John, I live in NJ, and have irises planted in a bed around a pear tree. It is now mid Sept. and the pear tree needs to be cut down, stump removed, and a maple tree planted. Do you think I need to remove the irises? What would be the best time to replant them it I do need to remove them. Do you have a video on removing and dividing them? Thank you, Amy

John, when do you fertilize iris?

Thank you. But I thought I needed have the tubers open to air?

yo necesito q me digan q clase d tierra se le pone a las plantas d iris por favor en español no se ingles

Hello... just watched your video about Bearded Iris care.... I live in GA and my Bloom stalks are bending into due to the weight of the bloom... any ideas on how to keep them from doing that.

I never trimmed my iris and have lost a lot of them... Thanks.

Thanks for the tips! Sorry, but how do you dub audio and STILL end up with traffic sounds in the background?

Question: is there any way to transplant bearded iris during the blooming season (while has flowers)?

hi john I am cutting back for the season and had my brother cut some iris flowers back for me. he ended up cutting them all the way to the ground i am afraid they wont come back next year? should i cover them or put mulch down?

Hello, I have some Beverly Sils iris rhizomes. I had to dig them up early this spring as they were starting to rot from too much water sitting in the area during the thaw. I basically cut them down, treated with 10% bleach to make sure all the soft rot was gone. They have been dried and sitting in a plastic bin for a few weeks now I missed a damn a couple times. I have not been able to get out there for this job until this week. there is not much root material to anchor the rhizome and I am in Wisconsin so I believe they need to be planted right at the top of the soil. not sure how I'm going to anchor them... but my main question is can i replant them in the same area I dug them out from? I don't think it was iris bore and I don't know if the soil needs to be treated with something first or if any iris shouldn't go back in that area at all for a few years? They were gorgeous! Please help?

Hi again, What if I store the bulbs in my spare fridge for 8-12 weeks and plant them in the ground , then will they grow here in the tropical heat ?

Sir I bought this plant online, it has flower stalk, I repot the plant before one month as I do not know anything of this plant I did not cut the leaves, now when I saw ur video I came to know, can I cut now, will the plant die, I do not want to lose it.

I have just seen your video in early June 2013 and didn't hear anything about what time of year you were doing the maintenance and since you mentioned regrowth, assumed that there is to be no re-blooming.

Hi, is it possible for bearded irises to grow in tropical conditions ?

I have never cut back my Iris plants. Is it too late, since it is early august, to cut them back?

I am in Georgia, and I think that the irises down here have already bloomed, maybe a month ago or longer. Is it too late for me to cut mine back as you did in the video? Or, should I wait and do it next year?

I have read WAITE 4-6 weeks after last blooms and only cut blossom stems down to 1st main leaf.....

What about fertilizing? and when. I dont see the rhyzom on those iris and so many videos specify to NOT bury the rhyzom too deep, that the top should be exposed?!?! Thanks

I live in zone 7 - 8.. I am growing Iris indoors.. Should they be cut back if you are growing them indoors??

Hi John, I really liked your video. I never knew to cut back the iris leaves like that. (Just an fyi....I find the music in your video very distracting. I kept checking if I had something else open before I realized it was from your video.)

After they have grown back from the cutting, do you leave them that way to die back until next spring or do you cut back again before winter?

I have several Irises that had beautiful yellow, pink, lavender blooms....this year I didn't have any blooms....I don't know what happened...and last year after the blooms....the folage was pretty and green all summer...this year about a week ago the folage turned wheat color and dried up completely down to the ground in one area where they were the prettiest...and I have other Irises in other areas and the leaves are still green....the weather here has been rainy and warm....do you know what happened?.....will my Irises come back?.....the video is helpful....Thanks!

I live in Zone 8/9 in the foothills of the Sierras. Do I do things differently with my irises? They finished blooming a month ago in April. Thank you

Hi! I live in central Illinois. My irises are done blooming now (beginning of July), but have seed pods on some of them. I want to harvest the seeds. So, my question is, when would I cut the plants back, like in this video? Thanks!

Does that mean they will bloom a second time?

WHAT about Double-bloomers? Early spring and again in fall... ?????

What time do the year?

Can you please specify what month you cut back your irises thankyou

What month do you trim and does it depend on your zone? My iris just finished blooming should I trim now? I'm zone 6. Thank you for your video

I'm moving, and I would like to my B.Irises with me. What would be the best way to store my B.Irises?

When transplanting is it best to transplant the full plant or will it survive transplanting after trimming the whole plant back? Thank You.

I am Bach. I from Vietnamese. I question, cut for the tree Hymenocallis speciosa?

I did this 2 years ago. Never flowered the next year and only had 3 blooms this year. What did I do wrong?

How you keep the bed weed free? Do you use weed killers?

I just acquired a bunch from a neighbor then they went into an ALF so I can not ask them....none had any kind of stem or flowers and it is the beginning of May here in FL. Should I go ahead and cut the foliage all back? There are several with a small bulb and roots. If I do all that, when would they grow a stem and flowers on them?

hi, why don't I get flowers from my iris got them two years ago, water them well what am I doing wrong ??? thanks:)

Do these spread like a lot ??

what season are you doing this? thx

Why don't you mulch your beds?

music over the top is super distracting. thanks for the info though.

video was informative but the music and background traffic noise made it difficult to watch, was giving me a headache.

Why aren't you mulching around them? THey are getting dried out because the moisture inthe soil is evaporating because of no mulch.

Ive had some irises and they never flower ever

Okay but you don’t say what season you’re in.

Moment I heard in two months they look the same I put my shears away.

Thank you