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About 10 years ago I planted some Siberian iris plants around a whiskey barrel fountain on the north side of my house. The area got some nice afternoon sun and the iris seemed happy and bloomed for me every year until the past 3 years or so when they just stopped blooming.. A nearby tree had started to shade the area a bit more, but that tree came down in a storm last year and I have quite a bit more sun almost everywhere in my yard (including where the iris live) I really love the combination of plants I have in that garden and would like to "revive" my irises, but for the past couple years they have just been clumps of very short (maybe 6" tall) thin leaves=no flowers at all.
I'm thinking that they were unhappy when the large tree was shading them so much -I'm thinking of digging those old clumps out (moving them to another area of my yard) and replacing them with new Siberian Iris plants. Can any of you iris experts tell me why my plants stopped thriving and if it would be OK to plant new ones in the same place?
Thanks so much!
Deb
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