The soil around the iris patch is bare, and the roots are exposed — as they should be. However, I don’t feel the irises are providing much aesthetic value to the garden, and I would like to encourage other things to grow there.

I’ve cast organic soil over them, spread winter rye, clover; I buried the last of my mushroom spores, and covered those with pine mulch. I hope that “weeds” will sprout here as I want to encourage biodiversity.

If the irises come up again, I will dig out their roots and transplant them somewhere else, like along the driveway. My guess is they will develop in the spaces left behind.

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