{"id":1138,"date":"2016-11-02T16:36:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T21:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2021-09-16T16:33:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T21:33:48","slug":"planting-growing-bearded-iris-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?p=1138","title":{"rendered":"Growing Bearded Iris in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/beardedpurpleirisblog1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/beardedpurpleirisblog1.jpg\" alt=\"beardedpurpleirisblog1\" class=\"wp-image-1101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/beardedpurpleirisblog1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/beardedpurpleirisblog1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This <strong>Bearded Iris<\/strong> traveled a long way to get here, and bloomed the first year after transplant! The season grew so busy this year, that I didn&#8217;t get these pics posted this Spring. My friend in Raleigh dug up two paper grocery bags brimming with iris rhizomes last year from her garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I brought them home, and planted a few groups in different sunny spots. Walter Reeves&#8217; website&nbsp;<a title=\"Walter Reeves Bearded Iris Dividing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.walterreeves.com\/gardening-q-and-a\/bearded-iris-dividing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> walterreeves.com<\/a> discuses when and how to divide iris rhizomes. I also found the <a title=\"American Iris Society:Growing Bearded Iris\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irises.org\/About_Irises\/Cultural%20Information\/Grow_Bearded.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Iris Society&#8217;s<\/a> detailed instructions about how to plant and grow iris very helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/beardedpurpleirisblog2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/beardedpurpleirisblog2.jpg\" alt=\"beardedpurpleirisblog2\" class=\"wp-image-1102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/beardedpurpleirisblog2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/beardedpurpleirisblog2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The only one that bloomed this year was this regally dark and majestic purple beauty. I posted in the past about my <a title=\"Dutch Iris\" href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?p=246\">Dutch Iris<\/a>&nbsp;-which is planted in the same area. They are similar, but the bearded iris is larger, has more frilly flowers, and more striking foliage. The American Meadows <a title=\"AmericanMeadows.com All About Irises\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americanmeadows.com\/about-irises\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All About Irises<\/a> page contains helpful info about the kinds of irises, their histories, and how to purchase and grow them. I am so happy to have them growing here. As a bonus, the deer and squirrels don&#8217;t seem to find them tasty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Bearded Iris traveled a long way to get here, and bloomed the first year after transplant! The season grew so busy this year, that I didn&#8217;t get these pics posted this Spring. My friend in Raleigh dug up two paper grocery bags brimming with iris rhizomes last year from her garden. I brought them &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?p=1138\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Growing Bearded Iris in Georgia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,9],"tags":[36,78,46,29,81,26,38,37,28],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscapeplants","category-perennials","category-rhizomes","tag-bearded-iris","tag-deer-resistant","tag-drought-tolerant","tag-georgia","tag-iris","tag-organic","tag-perennial","tag-rhizome","tag-zone-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2929,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/2929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}