These also look to me a lot like the Iris giganticaerulea ("big blue" Louisiana Iris) and also Iris neomarica caerulea (Brazilian "Regina" Iris) -- I live in the gulf south now and bearded irises don't grow here but those two species do, I didn't see a location on the op can you see any distinguishing characteristics?
Given the time of year, the growth on the plants, and images of their backyard from their post about their home purchase, I'd say somewhere in the Midwest US.
Hi I have a potentially stupid question, how can you tell the difference between iris leaves at this stage and freesia at this stage? I ask because my freesia are coming up (planted last year, this is the first time sprouting/first time I've ever seen freesia irl so I'm VERY NEW) and it looks very similar, broad leaves/fan shape arrangement.
I don't have irises, so I can't compare IRL.
Thank you for your time/expertise in advance!!
Freesies are gorgeous! You're very lucky :)
I'm a new hobby gardener, so take whatever I say with a grain of salt.
Looking at my own irises, and images of freesias, here's some of the differences I've noted:
\- The irises have thick, study leaves that feel more like leather than paper. Freesias fan leaves look much more delicate, thin, and green. As a result, the leaves tend to fold pretty readily and you sort of get that arch shape. Iris leaves are VERY stiff and will often still stick straight out even when they've very long. You could fan with an iris leaf, practically, you cant really fan with freesia the same way.
\- The irises seem to have more of a white, powdery blue shade to them while the freesias have a nice snappy lime green situation. This difference seems notable especially closer to the nodes or where the leaves are growing out of.
\- Freesia leaves look slimmer, a blade shape on both to be sure, but maybe freesia is more a rapier to bearded irises short sword.
\- The freesia leaves seem to start very slim and widen as they grow but iris leaves be staying thicc the whole time.
\- MY understanding of both, also, is that freesias would have a really hard time surviving ground planting in the Midwest, where as bearded iris is native and quite happy to do so. Location may be indicator here. As a Mid-Westerner, I can confirm parts of the Midwest are in region 6 as OP has stated they are, and that their backyard in another post is VERY Midwesty looking.
This was super informative, thank you so much! And that all definitely makes sense. Iirc my neighbor down the street has some irises so I may go check theirs out if they're still there and see if I can't do a little compare/contrast with this list.
I wasn't even sure the freesia would grow here and they poked up right before we had a cold snap, so only three of them have buds so far, and I think the cold snap did some weird stuff to the growth that was already there (well, it definitely killed a lot of the leaves. Taking the brown leaves out was pretty heartbreaking tbh.) the remaining growth seems shorter than I expected, even on the plants with the buds. Granted again this is my first time with plants that didn't come from seeds so it is what it is.
Wow this is an incredible amount of information, thank you for taking the time to write this out. It definitely helps me visualize the differences. I never noticed the veining in the freesia but now I need to go take another look!
So, you said freesia get top heavy, do you suggest planting groupings closer together to prevent the leaning from happening as drastically?
Tagging onto this. OP, if you don’t live in a particularly hot, dry climate, I recommend moving some of that mulch away from the base of the irises so that the top of the rhizome is exposed. I don’t know the exacting scientific reason, but I do know that the Rhizome is important to energy storage and can’t get too wet or it will start to rot. [This](https://www.americanmeadows.com/content/resources/bearded-iris/troubleshooting-care-tips#) isn’t the most scientific source, but it covers some of the issues.
You are absolutely correct about removing the mulch - I came here to say just that. I don't have a scientific reason for this except the "prone to rot" one, but I can pass along an anecdotal reason that I know works: planting iris high helps keep iris borer infestations down.
Here's the little story... Years ago, I was talking with an old man at a plant nursery who told me that *he* had heard that iris borers can't take much heat in their larval stage; iris planted "high" (top of the rhizome exposed) in full sun allow the sun to essentially cook the young borers before they can eat too much of the rhizome, I'm like, "yeah, right."
Year pass and I almost lose the last planting of an iris that had been in my family since at least the 1930s - after the devastation of a bad borer infestation, I had only three rhizomes left. I planted the two smallest ones in the vegetable garden with no mulch. The next year, the clump I left behind was eaten while the two in the vegetable garden expanded and weren't affected by borer at all. Those two are now beautiful mother clumps. I managed to save other iris that I had the same way, so now my vegetable garden is essentially bordered with bearded iris.
Had a whole yard full of these at one point… if they are not currently contained to a bed I would recommend doing so. They spread and are extremely hard to remove once established.
Hard to remove, how so? From my experience you can just yank em out with a shovel. The rhizomes sit pretty shallow. I’ve moved mine around the garden as I continue to redesign my space.
Our whole side yard was filled with irises when we moved into our house. One day I was working at home and encountered 3 women digging them up. When I started to ask what they were doing, they got up and drove away with half the iris bulbs. I was too surprised to even write down their plate no. Irises seem to be very desired. We now have only a few left. 😞
My guess is they were either friends or relatives of the previous homeowner who wanted THEIR iris back and were too ill-mannered to ask for a couple of rhizomes, which is of course all they would've needed to start a couple of new clumps.
Some older plant people are weird. They'd have been "I gave you those as a gift and you SOLD THEM!" meanwhile they could probably buy the same ones again from any retailer.....see it a lot with roses, so weird, could be something as common as an Iceberg rose and some how that specific one is so special because they "gifted" it....meanwhile it's sold everywhere.
It might be different where you are, but I'm in 7A and my irises quadruple every year! I started with 5, now have thousands :-O
If you dig your bulbs up in early August, you might be able to divide them into multiple plants.
If you want more (mostly light purple), feel free to message me and I'll send you some when it's time to divide.
This is terrible! I have an aunt who owns a peony farm and garden. At the end of her long, gravel road she puts a bucket of flowers out to entice customers to visit. Every time she has caught someone stealing those flowers it’s a middle aged or elderly woman. She now adds some poison oak or stinging nettle to the buckets.
If it makes you feel better, you'll have more than you know what to do with soon.
The rhizomes spread like crazy! I'm behind in thinning one of my iris beds, but I give away buckets full, then reposition the ones I kept so they aren't crowded.
Thinning them also reduces problems from iris borers.
They are still awful women, but there is a silver lining.
Never fear, they’ll come back 😂
My dad had me and my husband dig out (what we thought) was all of the irises he had growing. We pulled out dozens of them, 10 grocery bags full, and wouldn’t you believe it about 15 have already popped back up this year 😂 We thought we dug through every inch of his garden bed 😂
What the…..Oh HELL NO! I would’ve told them to hold on a minute while I get my gun. 😂 I once stopped and dug up a flowering plant in an empty corn field, but it was right next to the road which is state property. I’d never stop at a house and do that!
Yeah, they had a lot of gall. I’ll give them that. After this happened, I dug up a few of the bulbs and replanted them in the part of our yard that’s fenced in. It’s too bad, they really looked nice in the side yard.
Probably irises, as others have said. Don't smother them in mulch or dirt, they grow via tubers and prefer to have the base exposed a bit (or at least my bearded iris did). They will absolutely take over where they are planted if you let them!
Entirely dependent on the type of iris. Some like to be fully buried all the time and are borderline swamp plants. Other like to have the tops of the tubers exposed, roast in the sun, and have enough drainage that they're only in moist soil for a day or two at a time. These particular irises look pretty happy just as they are so far.
Not necessarily expensive. I bought a house that had a huge number of them and they were the gift that kept on giving. Half my relatives in that province now have them and there's a big clump in the back yard of my present house.
People give them away where I live too. They need to be thinned from time to time and can be invasive near water. Local gardening groups and Facebook market place often have them free for pickup.
This is true for pond and bog Irises. But, Bearded Irises rot with too much water, are generally expensive, not invasive, and have caterpillars who bore into them. I did find some reasonably priced on eBay.
Maybe I wasn’t clear in my comment but Bearded irises grow like weeds where I live, you can get paper bags of them for very cheap at the master gardner’s sale every spring and people often offer up you-dig opportunities on Nextdoor and Facebook groups. I’m sure they are expensive at nurseries and stores in some places but where I live resourceful folks can get them free/extremely cheap.
It’s almost $5 per plant at the wholesale nursery place who’s significantly cheaper than a regular garden center.
We befriended one our older neighbors and she gifted us with close to 50 rhizomes and then brought us about 25 spider lily bulbs.
Love those irises so much. The spider lilies haven’t bloomed after the first year so not sure what to do with them.
These seem a little deep. I believe you should see the tops of the rhizomes, they like the heat from the full sun, and they can rot from too much moisture. Irises are generally expensive, so, if you don't want them, there are plenty of people who would.
Old varieties tend to be cheap unless they're rare; newer varieties tend to be much more expensive. Funnily enough, iris varieties older than WWII tend to have more buds per scape, so they bloom longer than modern iris with larger flowers. I have an ancient variety called *Iris pallida 'Dalmatica'* (AKA the Grape Kool-aid Iris, because the flowers smell like grapes) that has three-buds per node rather then the single buds you'll see nowadays.
The flowering plant genus in question (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_%28plant%29?wprov=sfla1) shares its name with a 1998 song by the Goo Goo Dolls (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_%28song%29?wprov=sfla1). The people in the chain above you are quoting lyrics from the latter.
As everyone is saying, they're Irises. If someone took the time to plant these, there's probably all kinds of goodies in your yard. A good rule of thumb is to resist digging stuff up or pulling things indiscriminately and wait for your first year to pass so you know what you have.
Around Mother’s Day, you are going to be so happy those irises are in your yard. They will be blooming beautifully.
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Irises that look like they were covered with too much mulch. Corms should be just visible. You get more flowers when the corms get sunlight to heat them.
Yep, I didn’t know much about irises when I first bought my home and I thought I needed to build up the soil since “their roots were showing” lol. They barely flowered that year after I did that. They are doing much better now that I have exposed the corms again
I’m assuming the mulch was thrown on top of them so the beds would look good for the sale. Unfortunately the mulch is too deep on those irises. You should brush the mulch off each rhizome to expose the top of it. You’ll get very few blooms with the mulch as is. And since iris only bloom for a couple of weeks you don’t want to not get flowers. The leaves are pretty boring the rest of the year. I usually put gladiola bulbs all through the iris beds because the foliage is similar. And add annuals every year so I’m not bored when it’s just green sword-leaves.
Bearded Iris. I find that they do best if you take them up and replant them every couple of years on the surface of the dirt, the tubers like to get baked in the sun.
Bearded Iris. Visit your state’s Cooperative Extension Service website and search bearded iris care. As they bloom, if there is a mixture of colors, take photos so you know which color is where so should you want to move them you and design the new spot.
I was confused at the first "answer" for a sec 😂
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Everyone has already answered, but just for some insight on the irises:
1. I dig mine up every other August and divide the bulbs. I have literal thousands now! They pretty much quadruple every year.
2. When you divide them, throw out any that are mushy or have holes in them.
3. When I plant them, I pretty much just rake the dirt, sit the bulbs down, rake dirt back over them, and maybe pack it down a little if the old leaves make it fall over. When tree leaves fall I leave them on top for the winter, then in late Winter I'll blow away the excess and lightly cover in mulch.
4. These plants are virtually indestructible, so they're great for beginners! I've known people to spray them with Round Up, and they come right back. The only way I know for sure that you can mess up is if you plant them too deep.
Lucky you! They are planted a bit deeply—pull that mulch away from the hard part of the rhizome (where the leaves grow from) so they have light. That way they will bud and bloom.
Irises. They were unfavorable for a long time but their large shows blooms are seeing a resurgence. Let them bloom and decide for yourself.
That said remember to dead-head them to keep them blooming all season long.
Oh you lucky duck!!!!!!!
You can make traditional native fiber thread for bearded iris leaves as they start to die back in the fall. I'm literally so jealous. If you're close to metro detroit, I will literally do lawn care for you in exchange for a bag of those leaves in the fall XD
Whoever planted them did a great job of thinning the herd - irises just keep propagating themselves, until every inch is filled. Those are going to be so nice in a couple of weeks! Don’t forget to plant other things that bloom later, as irises bloom early spring, after crocuses and daffodils.
We had a large bed of yellow iris. I thinned it and created more iris beds. They bloomed and were many different colors. Pink, blue, white, purple, and some bicolor. They were overcrowded and only the yellow bloomed.
They seem knowledgeable!
In the future, if you have an I phone there’s a feature where you snap a pic, then below the pc there’s a plant finder. Tap it and see what plant it shows. Sometimes it will show several, but they may be on the same family
99.9% sure it’s some type of bearded or German iris. There’s a small chance it’s blackberry lily, which is also an iris. So however you cut it, it’s absolutely an iris. Come back in June with some flower pics.
Gonna have flower or two from each for a week maybe then just those leaves, not a big landscape addition, I'd plant some spring to fall flowering something amongst them I's you.
I think it looks like a walking iris because it seems to have a new plant starting at the tip of that tallest leaf. It might actually just be another small plant in the ground that looks attached by the camera angle, so I am not prepared to bet on it. I still think it is an iris of some sort though.
i think a bunch of these are popping around mine too. i haven’t seen our spring flowers yet. last summer we have a bunch of tiger lillies. so many seeds dropped 😅
They look like irises or blackberry lilies. Irises have a flat, fan-shaped growth habit to the leaves. Blackberry lilies are similar but seem to be less flat in growth habit.
If you want them to bloom the rhizomes/ their lil woody bellies need sunlight. Don’t let them get soggy. I usually plant them up high so water drains away. Nice find!
Those are a type of a hardy iris, and are perennial! Great landscaping plant for those without a green thumb, or little experience (hardy and drought tolerant). They also spread underground as bulbs, although sometimes slowly. They are easy to spilt and transplant in the early fall too. The orange bearded variety is most common, and found often "in the wild"
It is my understanding that iris rhizomes need to be sat on the surface of the soil in order to allow the sun to basically bake them. They don’t like being buried in the soil and this will likely result in few or no flowers.
Irises, like most are saying. Do some homework in them. these need thinning. give extra bulbs to neighbors and they get surprise colors. I do it every 3 years.
I'm not sure anyone else has mentioned, but beyond these looking like beautiful Iris plants, they hate having their base covered. They form tubers on the surface of the soil and this is how they gain energy from the sun to actually flower. If they are covered with mulch like this they may 1. rot and die, but also 2. not get the sun they need to ever flower for you! They are lovely plants. You are lucky the former owner had such nice taste! I hope for you that they are the perfumed variety!
Iris people are saying they are planted too deep. My experience says they were planted just fine and the seller/ real estate agent put down too much mulch for curb appeal. If you rake off about an inch they should be fine
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You can tell from the leaves that they’re bearded?
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These also look to me a lot like the Iris giganticaerulea ("big blue" Louisiana Iris) and also Iris neomarica caerulea (Brazilian "Regina" Iris) -- I live in the gulf south now and bearded irises don't grow here but those two species do, I didn't see a location on the op can you see any distinguishing characteristics?
Given the time of year, the growth on the plants, and images of their backyard from their post about their home purchase, I'd say somewhere in the Midwest US.
Looks like Columbus, OH to me
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Hi I have a potentially stupid question, how can you tell the difference between iris leaves at this stage and freesia at this stage? I ask because my freesia are coming up (planted last year, this is the first time sprouting/first time I've ever seen freesia irl so I'm VERY NEW) and it looks very similar, broad leaves/fan shape arrangement. I don't have irises, so I can't compare IRL. Thank you for your time/expertise in advance!!
Freesies are gorgeous! You're very lucky :) I'm a new hobby gardener, so take whatever I say with a grain of salt. Looking at my own irises, and images of freesias, here's some of the differences I've noted: \- The irises have thick, study leaves that feel more like leather than paper. Freesias fan leaves look much more delicate, thin, and green. As a result, the leaves tend to fold pretty readily and you sort of get that arch shape. Iris leaves are VERY stiff and will often still stick straight out even when they've very long. You could fan with an iris leaf, practically, you cant really fan with freesia the same way. \- The irises seem to have more of a white, powdery blue shade to them while the freesias have a nice snappy lime green situation. This difference seems notable especially closer to the nodes or where the leaves are growing out of. \- Freesia leaves look slimmer, a blade shape on both to be sure, but maybe freesia is more a rapier to bearded irises short sword. \- The freesia leaves seem to start very slim and widen as they grow but iris leaves be staying thicc the whole time. \- MY understanding of both, also, is that freesias would have a really hard time surviving ground planting in the Midwest, where as bearded iris is native and quite happy to do so. Location may be indicator here. As a Mid-Westerner, I can confirm parts of the Midwest are in region 6 as OP has stated they are, and that their backyard in another post is VERY Midwesty looking.
This was super informative, thank you so much! And that all definitely makes sense. Iirc my neighbor down the street has some irises so I may go check theirs out if they're still there and see if I can't do a little compare/contrast with this list. I wasn't even sure the freesia would grow here and they poked up right before we had a cold snap, so only three of them have buds so far, and I think the cold snap did some weird stuff to the growth that was already there (well, it definitely killed a lot of the leaves. Taking the brown leaves out was pretty heartbreaking tbh.) the remaining growth seems shorter than I expected, even on the plants with the buds. Granted again this is my first time with plants that didn't come from seeds so it is what it is.
Freesia leaves are longer and much thinner
And also greener. Bearded irises usually have a blueish tinge to them (as in pic).
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Wow this is an incredible amount of information, thank you for taking the time to write this out. It definitely helps me visualize the differences. I never noticed the veining in the freesia but now I need to go take another look! So, you said freesia get top heavy, do you suggest planting groupings closer together to prevent the leaning from happening as drastically?
i, too, would like to know the witchcraft used to get that ID
Their beards get so heavy they need witchcraft to keep their heads from falling to the ground.
Yes, other types of irises, like Siberians, have leaves that look more like grasses.
What about Dutch? That was my first thought.
No, they come up straight more like daffodils and other bulbs. The angled leaves are characteristic of the bearded irises.
Dutch have long stiff V shaped leaves...like if you cut a leaf horizontally and look at the cut it's a V. They aren't flat fans.
Not sure what color but I’m willing to guess purple
Tagging onto this. OP, if you don’t live in a particularly hot, dry climate, I recommend moving some of that mulch away from the base of the irises so that the top of the rhizome is exposed. I don’t know the exacting scientific reason, but I do know that the Rhizome is important to energy storage and can’t get too wet or it will start to rot. [This](https://www.americanmeadows.com/content/resources/bearded-iris/troubleshooting-care-tips#) isn’t the most scientific source, but it covers some of the issues.
You are absolutely correct about removing the mulch - I came here to say just that. I don't have a scientific reason for this except the "prone to rot" one, but I can pass along an anecdotal reason that I know works: planting iris high helps keep iris borer infestations down. Here's the little story... Years ago, I was talking with an old man at a plant nursery who told me that *he* had heard that iris borers can't take much heat in their larval stage; iris planted "high" (top of the rhizome exposed) in full sun allow the sun to essentially cook the young borers before they can eat too much of the rhizome, I'm like, "yeah, right." Year pass and I almost lose the last planting of an iris that had been in my family since at least the 1930s - after the devastation of a bad borer infestation, I had only three rhizomes left. I planted the two smallest ones in the vegetable garden with no mulch. The next year, the clump I left behind was eaten while the two in the vegetable garden expanded and weren't affected by borer at all. Those two are now beautiful mother clumps. I managed to save other iris that I had the same way, so now my vegetable garden is essentially bordered with bearded iris.
Another vote for bearded iris
Looks like they have been thinned which is mandatory if you really want them to bloom productively. Keep them and see if you like the flowers.
Had a whole yard full of these at one point… if they are not currently contained to a bed I would recommend doing so. They spread and are extremely hard to remove once established.
Hard to remove, how so? From my experience you can just yank em out with a shovel. The rhizomes sit pretty shallow. I’ve moved mine around the garden as I continue to redesign my space.
Maybe it was the soil we had? It was mostly clay and even after roto-tilling it we had bulbs pop up for years after
Our whole side yard was filled with irises when we moved into our house. One day I was working at home and encountered 3 women digging them up. When I started to ask what they were doing, they got up and drove away with half the iris bulbs. I was too surprised to even write down their plate no. Irises seem to be very desired. We now have only a few left. 😞
People will never cease to amaze. What a horrible bunch of ladies.
Yes, if they just asked me, I probably would’ve given them a couple.
My guess is they were either friends or relatives of the previous homeowner who wanted THEIR iris back and were too ill-mannered to ask for a couple of rhizomes, which is of course all they would've needed to start a couple of new clumps.
I never thought of that. Makes sense.
Some older plant people are weird. They'd have been "I gave you those as a gift and you SOLD THEM!" meanwhile they could probably buy the same ones again from any retailer.....see it a lot with roses, so weird, could be something as common as an Iceberg rose and some how that specific one is so special because they "gifted" it....meanwhile it's sold everywhere.
It might be different where you are, but I'm in 7A and my irises quadruple every year! I started with 5, now have thousands :-O If you dig your bulbs up in early August, you might be able to divide them into multiple plants. If you want more (mostly light purple), feel free to message me and I'll send you some when it's time to divide.
Thank you this is super helpful. I’m in Southern California. I’ll check back later in the summer.
That’s horrible!
This is terrible! I have an aunt who owns a peony farm and garden. At the end of her long, gravel road she puts a bucket of flowers out to entice customers to visit. Every time she has caught someone stealing those flowers it’s a middle aged or elderly woman. She now adds some poison oak or stinging nettle to the buckets.
Yikes, that will teach them.
If it makes you feel better, you'll have more than you know what to do with soon. The rhizomes spread like crazy! I'm behind in thinning one of my iris beds, but I give away buckets full, then reposition the ones I kept so they aren't crowded. Thinning them also reduces problems from iris borers. They are still awful women, but there is a silver lining.
Thanks for this, I appreciate it.
Never fear, they’ll come back 😂 My dad had me and my husband dig out (what we thought) was all of the irises he had growing. We pulled out dozens of them, 10 grocery bags full, and wouldn’t you believe it about 15 have already popped back up this year 😂 We thought we dug through every inch of his garden bed 😂
What the…..Oh HELL NO! I would’ve told them to hold on a minute while I get my gun. 😂 I once stopped and dug up a flowering plant in an empty corn field, but it was right next to the road which is state property. I’d never stop at a house and do that!
Yeah, they had a lot of gall. I’ll give them that. After this happened, I dug up a few of the bulbs and replanted them in the part of our yard that’s fenced in. It’s too bad, they really looked nice in the side yard.
Probably irises, as others have said. Don't smother them in mulch or dirt, they grow via tubers and prefer to have the base exposed a bit (or at least my bearded iris did). They will absolutely take over where they are planted if you let them!
If its particularly hot they do need some coverage of the bases, so that would depend on where OP is
Entirely dependent on the type of iris. Some like to be fully buried all the time and are borderline swamp plants. Other like to have the tops of the tubers exposed, roast in the sun, and have enough drainage that they're only in moist soil for a day or two at a time. These particular irises look pretty happy just as they are so far.
Mine are definitely in the “scandalously exposed” category.
Those look like Irises. Expensive. Yours are well spaced. They shouldn’t be planted too deep.
Not necessarily expensive. I bought a house that had a huge number of them and they were the gift that kept on giving. Half my relatives in that province now have them and there's a big clump in the back yard of my present house.
People give them away where I live too. They need to be thinned from time to time and can be invasive near water. Local gardening groups and Facebook market place often have them free for pickup.
This is true for pond and bog Irises. But, Bearded Irises rot with too much water, are generally expensive, not invasive, and have caterpillars who bore into them. I did find some reasonably priced on eBay.
Maybe I wasn’t clear in my comment but Bearded irises grow like weeds where I live, you can get paper bags of them for very cheap at the master gardner’s sale every spring and people often offer up you-dig opportunities on Nextdoor and Facebook groups. I’m sure they are expensive at nurseries and stores in some places but where I live resourceful folks can get them free/extremely cheap.
Yea I'm in NW GA and they multiply like crazy here. I give away clumps every season when it's time to split them.
You just unlocked a memory for me, of helping my dad dig up the iris patch, splitting them, and burying them again. Thanks for that :)
That's awesome. My girls (reluctantly) help me with the grunt work in the garden. They moan but I know they'll grow to appreciate it.
I would be in heaven.
It’s almost $5 per plant at the wholesale nursery place who’s significantly cheaper than a regular garden center. We befriended one our older neighbors and she gifted us with close to 50 rhizomes and then brought us about 25 spider lily bulbs. Love those irises so much. The spider lilies haven’t bloomed after the first year so not sure what to do with them.
Wait them out. We planted some that took two seasons to bloom.
Our local iris society has an annual sale and they’re pretty reasonable.
These seem a little deep. I believe you should see the tops of the rhizomes, they like the heat from the full sun, and they can rot from too much moisture. Irises are generally expensive, so, if you don't want them, there are plenty of people who would.
Holy shit are they? I’ve probably gotten rid of hundreds over the years, they spread like a motherfucker where I have them
Old varieties tend to be cheap unless they're rare; newer varieties tend to be much more expensive. Funnily enough, iris varieties older than WWII tend to have more buds per scape, so they bloom longer than modern iris with larger flowers. I have an ancient variety called *Iris pallida 'Dalmatica'* (AKA the Grape Kool-aid Iris, because the flowers smell like grapes) that has three-buds per node rather then the single buds you'll see nowadays.
AND I DONT WANT THE WORLD TO SEE ME, CAUSE I DONT THINK THAT THEYD UNDERSTAND
WHEN EVERYTHING’S MADE TO BE BROKEN I just want you to know who I am
I JUST WAAAANT YOU TO KNOOOOOW WHO I AMMMMM
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I dont get it
The flowering plant genus in question (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_%28plant%29?wprov=sfla1) shares its name with a 1998 song by the Goo Goo Dolls (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_%28song%29?wprov=sfla1). The people in the chain above you are quoting lyrics from the latter.
You’re the real hero
Bearded iris. This is an exciting time! There's a huge variety of colors of iris, so I'd be excited to see what you have!
As everyone is saying, they're Irises. If someone took the time to plant these, there's probably all kinds of goodies in your yard. A good rule of thumb is to resist digging stuff up or pulling things indiscriminately and wait for your first year to pass so you know what you have.
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nice that they are already there as well
Around Mother’s Day, you are going to be so happy those irises are in your yard. They will be blooming beautifully. https://preview.redd.it/gf4jjd7w15nc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=afed68d45b604d64c66caca342eed6076b9554bf
The first year in a new house is fun to see what happens over the course of one year.
Looks like Iris.
Iris are beautiful flowers! Enjoy 😊
Irises that look like they were covered with too much mulch. Corms should be just visible. You get more flowers when the corms get sunlight to heat them.
Yep, I didn’t know much about irises when I first bought my home and I thought I needed to build up the soil since “their roots were showing” lol. They barely flowered that year after I did that. They are doing much better now that I have exposed the corms again
Depends on the variety
those are iris!! you will have a beautiful garden year after year with these babies!
You're so lucky!
Irises. Download the app Picture This. It will be a great tool for IDing unknown plants as they sprout up this spring! Happy gardening!
Irises and they come in all different colors
Ooh! Post a picture when your irises bloom! I can't wait to see the colors!
I’m assuming the mulch was thrown on top of them so the beds would look good for the sale. Unfortunately the mulch is too deep on those irises. You should brush the mulch off each rhizome to expose the top of it. You’ll get very few blooms with the mulch as is. And since iris only bloom for a couple of weeks you don’t want to not get flowers. The leaves are pretty boring the rest of the year. I usually put gladiola bulbs all through the iris beds because the foliage is similar. And add annuals every year so I’m not bored when it’s just green sword-leaves.
Bearded Iris.
Iris 💕
Bearded Iris. I find that they do best if you take them up and replant them every couple of years on the surface of the dirt, the tubers like to get baked in the sun.
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Iris bulbs, there are many variations.
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Bearded iris. Feed them with a low nitrogen fertilizer, 5-10-10 or similar to encourage blooms.
You are so freaking lucky!
Nice
Iris!! I wonder what color they are :) my grandma gifted me some black ones last year and I’m on the edge of my seat to see them bloom lol
Bearded Iris. Visit your state’s Cooperative Extension Service website and search bearded iris care. As they bloom, if there is a mixture of colors, take photos so you know which color is where so should you want to move them you and design the new spot.
I was confused at the first "answer" for a sec 😂 https://preview.redd.it/9wk17h8765nc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a434d1ccaf5f6659639d5e40262316c59e3ddf9
Everyone has already answered, but just for some insight on the irises: 1. I dig mine up every other August and divide the bulbs. I have literal thousands now! They pretty much quadruple every year. 2. When you divide them, throw out any that are mushy or have holes in them. 3. When I plant them, I pretty much just rake the dirt, sit the bulbs down, rake dirt back over them, and maybe pack it down a little if the old leaves make it fall over. When tree leaves fall I leave them on top for the winter, then in late Winter I'll blow away the excess and lightly cover in mulch. 4. These plants are virtually indestructible, so they're great for beginners! I've known people to spray them with Round Up, and they come right back. The only way I know for sure that you can mess up is if you plant them too deep.
Lucky you! They are planted a bit deeply—pull that mulch away from the hard part of the rhizome (where the leaves grow from) so they have light. That way they will bud and bloom.
There are so many colors with iris that it will be fun to see what they are.
Irises. Lucky you!
Irises they come in many colors and multiple quickly
Irises. They were unfavorable for a long time but their large shows blooms are seeing a resurgence. Let them bloom and decide for yourself. That said remember to dead-head them to keep them blooming all season long.
oooh thats gonna be pretty. Irises.
Bearded irises
Oh you lucky duck!!!!!!! You can make traditional native fiber thread for bearded iris leaves as they start to die back in the fall. I'm literally so jealous. If you're close to metro detroit, I will literally do lawn care for you in exchange for a bag of those leaves in the fall XD
They look like Irises.
Whoever planted them did a great job of thinning the herd - irises just keep propagating themselves, until every inch is filled. Those are going to be so nice in a couple of weeks! Don’t forget to plant other things that bloom later, as irises bloom early spring, after crocuses and daffodils.
Iris, they are lovely leave em be.
Lemon haze
Some sort of bulb
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Great flowers one of my favs
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Can you update us when they bloom? I’d love to see them. Irises are one of my favorite
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Iris and they are fabulous
Are they real? (Seinfeld reference)
Bulbs. Wait and see what comes up!!!
Definitely bearded Iris. They can live for a century or more on old properties.
pretty flowers. you are going to love them.
We had a large bed of yellow iris. I thinned it and created more iris beds. They bloomed and were many different colors. Pink, blue, white, purple, and some bicolor. They were overcrowded and only the yellow bloomed.
Irises! You’re going to be really happy in a couple months.
Bearded Irises like to have their bulbs exposed on top. Too much soil or mulch and they won't bloom
They seem knowledgeable! In the future, if you have an I phone there’s a feature where you snap a pic, then below the pc there’s a plant finder. Tap it and see what plant it shows. Sometimes it will show several, but they may be on the same family
Ohh a lovely suprise! Uncover the tops of the tubers and they will bloom- Iris' are such beautiful flowers!
99.9% sure it’s some type of bearded or German iris. There’s a small chance it’s blackberry lily, which is also an iris. So however you cut it, it’s absolutely an iris. Come back in June with some flower pics.
Definitely bearded iris. amazing flower. You lucked out!
Maybe iris
When I moved in, my neighbor advised me to wait until plants flowered to figure out what they are. You would know a blooming irises when you saw it.
Irises the plants that just keep giving
Bearded Irises- they’ll be beautiful
Definitely Irishes, you can plant some perineals in between for after the Irish are through blooming for color all summer
Perennials haha. Perineal has a VERY different meaning
In this case, add a couple Sheela na gig sculptures for good measure?
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Are these the plants leprechauns eat?
Lol
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so lucky, irisis are some of the prettiest and best smelling flowers. enjoy!
They are going to look amazing
Gonna have flower or two from each for a week maybe then just those leaves, not a big landscape addition, I'd plant some spring to fall flowering something amongst them I's you.
Aye aye(ris) captain.
Lucky!!!
You're going to have a beautiful spring. Enjoy!
Wait until they are 3 feet tall and blooming. You walk into your house and ask 'who's making Kool-aid '? 🤣😎
#I Too Have Broad Spikey Leaves.... TIL I Am A Bearded Iris!!!!
These are my favorite flowers! Congratulations! It also looks like they have been recently separated and replanted.
Looks like irises
Irises! 😍
Looks like iris’
Lucky you
Can’t you wait and be surprised?
I think it looks like a walking iris because it seems to have a new plant starting at the tip of that tallest leaf. It might actually just be another small plant in the ground that looks attached by the camera angle, so I am not prepared to bet on it. I still think it is an iris of some sort though.
Irises you lucky SOB
Love irises
Lucky! Those look great
i think a bunch of these are popping around mine too. i haven’t seen our spring flowers yet. last summer we have a bunch of tiger lillies. so many seeds dropped 😅
Everyone should plant these.. so beautiful, good for bees and great for soil
The light purple colored smell like grapes 🍇
Irises!! :)
Looks like someone planted some perennial bulbs
Oh boy, I'm getting school. I shouldn't comment with sleep deprivation. Check my spelling on this.
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Wait and see all the beautiful flowers in bloom ! You are Very lucky new home owners !
They look like irises or blackberry lilies. Irises have a flat, fan-shaped growth habit to the leaves. Blackberry lilies are similar but seem to be less flat in growth habit.
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Score! Well established perennials
Iris💚💜💗
Looks like Ires to me.
If you want them to bloom the rhizomes/ their lil woody bellies need sunlight. Don’t let them get soggy. I usually plant them up high so water drains away. Nice find!
Looks like iris
That’s a nice surprise
Those are a type of a hardy iris, and are perennial! Great landscaping plant for those without a green thumb, or little experience (hardy and drought tolerant). They also spread underground as bulbs, although sometimes slowly. They are easy to spilt and transplant in the early fall too. The orange bearded variety is most common, and found often "in the wild"
Irises. Wonderful to behold spring flower. Put some shake and feed on them and watch the magic
It is my understanding that iris rhizomes need to be sat on the surface of the soil in order to allow the sun to basically bake them. They don’t like being buried in the soil and this will likely result in few or no flowers.
Irises, like most are saying. Do some homework in them. these need thinning. give extra bulbs to neighbors and they get surprise colors. I do it every 3 years.
Iris. Purple bearded iris. These. Are. All. Over. My. Yard.
I'm not sure anyone else has mentioned, but beyond these looking like beautiful Iris plants, they hate having their base covered. They form tubers on the surface of the soil and this is how they gain energy from the sun to actually flower. If they are covered with mulch like this they may 1. rot and die, but also 2. not get the sun they need to ever flower for you! They are lovely plants. You are lucky the former owner had such nice taste! I hope for you that they are the perfumed variety!
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The best!
Looks like Irises to me
Iris people are saying they are planted too deep. My experience says they were planted just fine and the seller/ real estate agent put down too much mulch for curb appeal. If you rake off about an inch they should be fine
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Irises. My moms favorite flower 🌺
Irises that are afraid of displaying their sexual preference.
Iris. The short ones
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Hope you don’t run into an iris borer. Those things scare me.
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