Ideas please for suitable companions to Flag Iris.

Huh....now who`s not keeping up? It`s just a little Sony cybershot DSC-w800 ...with macro facility.....Sheal and company have been teaching me and no you can`t have mine - get one of your own......

 

Is it a sony cybershot DSC-w800 Tetters?
i know, I should have said "please" for you to give one to me......

 

This is my iris. It wasn't the colour I was expecting, but, I love it all the same - the flowers look almost black.



Be aware of how quickly they can grow @silu and the space they require.

I planted it in a new border which was created in March 2016, it is in the foreground in the right hand corner of the bed/photograph



One year on and this is the size of the clump (photo taken in May 2017 )



One of the plants I quite liked planted with it (except, like a true numpty turnip, I'd planted it *behind* the iris: amateur mistake ) was "London Pride" - it's a variegated one and I thought the two looked ok together



I moved the L.P. to a pot last Autumn so they are no longer sharing the same bed. But, if I were to do it again, I would simply plant it in front of the iris next time

 

It is one of those occasions to use this :rasp: (meant for Verdun!!!!)

 

Yes @"M" I have about 30 to 40 different varieties and have grown flag iris for about 30 years. Up here in Scotland that's where my Igloo is @Tetters they don't bulk up that quickly like yours do "M", the older rhizomes tend to rot off during the winter butI have never lost a variety except a couple of variegated leafed ones which thought living in Scotland was not on!

 

Puts my time into the blink of any eye category then!

 

Why not create a bed devoted to the Iridaceae family in general to maintain interest through the palatable months? This should be the Iridaceae threads on this forum for ideas............

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I wonder if little brollies would help to save them from rotting off

 

You got it right first time, "M"! As KFF said above, Iris don't really like low-growing stuff shading their rhizomes and it increases the risk of them rotting in winter. So there's a clever girl!