Best time to move irises?

Autumn :thumb: (Sep-Oct)

 

Sorry, but Bearded Iris are moved after flowering has finished. We do ours in the middle of June and if you go to Powys Catle Gardens or Chirk, they do theirs then too. We dig up the rhizomes after removing the dead flowering stems, discard the older soggy pieces, cut the leaf fans in half and replant in newly fertilised soil. The roots are planted on either side of a ridge with the rhizomes running north/south and exposed with the fan of leaves at the north end. Give them a good watering and away they go.

 

Probably help to know whether they are Bearded, Beardless, moisture-loving (marginal), bulbs, crested even! or one of the others

Got a picture of them in flower Loofah?

 

The thing is, if you wait until Autumn to move them there is a chance that all the foliage will have gone so it's a job to find them. So to avoid having to deal with my terrible memory, I would move them in Summer for this reason. Perhaps it is by happy accident that I seem to do it at the right time.

Sometimes, the right time to do something is when you have remembered to.