If the iris are rhizomes, you can feed them by using hay or alfafa pellets.
I use bales of hay and make alfafa tea with it and then I mix the used
alfafa meal into the soil. The tea I bottle and use as a top soil feed
during the summer and into winter. I've got TBI's MBI's and DBI's in my
garden which has been carved out of a desert field.
Right now they number over 300.


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"sockiescat" wrote in message
...

Jeff I do not know what type they are and neither does the person who
gave
them to us. I may replant them; it looks like maybe I transplanted
them
too deep in the ground. I provide them with bone meal every spring,
but
I am also giving them Miracle Grow. I will discontinue the Miracle
Grow
and see what happens.

Thank you for all your replies and pointers.

Jeffery

Travis M. wrote:
"Jeff" wrote in message
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A friend gave a bunch of irises to us after they failed to
thrive at
her house; she planted them in a shady part of her lawn.

We transplanted the irises to our garden in a sunny location.
It has
been three years and we have seen only one iris bloom; the
bloom was
yellow. No blooms this year. I wonder what I'm doing wrong and
whether I should just get rid of them.

Thank you,

Jeff

What kind of Iris?

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Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8
Sunset Zone 5


it sure does sound like u planned your iris to deep. the rhizome itself
should be at soil leve. unless the top part shows your iris will produce
either very few flowers or none at all. good
luck, sockescat.


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