On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 21:25:59 -0500, zxcvbob
wrote:

I bought some potted daylilies and siberian iris at the local nursery,
cheap. The flower bed is not really ready for them yet, but there's a bed
in the vegetable garden that's better soil anyway. Can I plant them in the
garden now, and then transplant them in the spring? Or do they need to
spend a year in the ground where I put them. I really need to get them
outta these nursery pots. I'm in zone 4.

As another poster wrote, both are hardy and forgiving. No experience
with zone 4, but both can survive in pots here for some time. You
might require cold protection to overwinter 'above ground' there. Even
if they get well-established in the veg spot, they shouldn't be too
difficult to transplant in spring. The foliage of both dies back in
winter, so Mark That Spot and watch for emerging shoots in spring.