Planting bearded irises. Iris planting and care in the open field feeding reproduction

Bearded irises are lovers of heat and bright sun. According to legend, these beautiful flowers grew on the site of a rainbow that flashed all over the earth when Prometheus gave people fire. This bright flower has 700 different types and countless shapes and colors. The most spectacular of these is the bearded iris, a tall and beautiful flower.

Time and place of landing of the Bearded Iris

The best time to plant an iris is during the active growth phase of its root system, which begins immediately after the flowering period. Have different types iris this period will be different, but it is the bearded iris that blooms in July - at the beginning of the month it begins to bloom, and ends by August. After the iris has faded, you need to wait a couple of weeks, and then you can start dividing the bushes for planting. It turns out that this is the very end of July and the beginning of August, but planting is possible until the end of summer. In the southern regions, where the heat stays longer, planting is possible until the end of September. It is impossible to delay planting for a long time - the flower will not have time to take root before the onset of cold weather.

As for the choice of location, it should be a sunny area without shading. Shading is allowed only partial in the afternoon - iris is very fond of the sun, and in the shade it blooms poorly. Protect the landing from gusty winds - this delicate flower will simply fly around.

When choosing a soil for planting, it is better to focus on slightly acidic or alkaline soil. If there is no suitable one on the site, then you can improve the existing one. Add sand and peat to heavy soil, and lime to sour soil. For bearded irises (unlike other species of this plant), rocky soil is also suitable. It is also important to keep an eye out for weeds - they can cause flower diseases.

Planting the bearded Iris

When the site is selected, you can start planting. Sit down bearded irises rhizome, not seeds, because seed reproduction does not retain the properties of the variety. In a small hole, a mound is poured in the center, on which the rhizome is located, and the roots will be distributed along the edges of the hole. The roots are covered with soil, and the mound with the rhizome is covered with a small layer of coarse sand. The rhizome cannot be buried, otherwise the plant will not have enough strength to hatch upward. You need to make holes at a distance of 50 centimeters. Watering immediately after planting is optional.

Caring for the bearded Iris

Taking care of this flower is not too difficult, the basic rules are to fertilize and remove weeds. As noted above, weeds create conditions in which diseases dangerous to iris develop well. Therefore, frequent weeding will be their prevention.

As for feeding, it is better to do it with mineral fertilizers three times a year:

in early May at the time of bud growth;
in early June for better development peduncle;
a couple of weeks after the start of flowering to form buds for the next flowering.

During the same periods, you can sprinkle the soil with a small amount of ash, which will reduce the acidity of the soil and reduce the risk of flower diseases. For the winter, it is better to cover imported varieties to avoid freezing of flower buds. In this case, the iris will continue to grow, but it will stop blooming. Russian breeding varieties do not need to be covered - they will perfectly survive frosts. They cover the irises with soil or peat, and in the spring they carefully remove the shelter. If the rhizomes are frozen, they will become soft and white. This plaque must be cleaned off to a hard tissue, smeared with brilliant green on the cut and sprinkled with ash.

Diseases and pests

The most common disease of bearded irises is bacteriosis. It arises as a result of a buried planting of the rhizome, when it still managed to break through the soil layer. In this case, you can observe soft rhizomes that have become brown color... They just start to rot. In order to save the flower, you need to dig it up, remove all rotten tissues and disinfect the rhizome with potassium permanganate. After that, the plant must be placed in the sun and allowed to dry, periodically turning it. The causative agents of infection will soon die from the bright sun, after which the iris can be planted back, but already correctly.

In the dew season, that is, from the second half of July to the end of summer, bearded irises are susceptible to rust. To save the plant, treat with preparations containing copper. Also, bugs can start on irises that infect the leaves. To combat them, drugs against the Colorado potato beetle are perfect.

The use of the bearded iris in landscape design

Stronger perennial flowers and plants can inhibit the growth and flowering of irises, so they are planted in groups. Besides, mixed landings can negatively affect soil moisture, and irises do not like excess moisture. To the company of these high beautiful flowers poppies, gladioli and phlox are suitable. You can also play with different varieties of bearded iris in one flower bed - you can combine one-color and two-tone flowers in it, as well as edged and iridescent ones. Their diversity will provide an elegant flowering in the garden.

Winter hardiness different varieties bearded irises are different, so it is safer to grow varieties that winter well in this region. Bearded irises are propagated vegetatively by dividing the rhizomes of 3-5-year-old plants. Bearded irises are planted in summer - from mid-August, and at the very beginning of autumn, so that the plants have time to take root before the cold weather, but if necessary, you can plant irises in spring. The August-September division of iris rhizomes gives a large percentage of plants blooming in the first year after planting. Transplanting irises in your garden "from ground to ground" can be started 2 weeks after the end of flowering and carried out at a convenient time.

In one place, without prejudice to decorativeness, bearded irises are usually grown for no more than 5 years, then the bushes are dug up with a pitchfork and cut into planting divisions. Delenka is a part of a healthy rhizome with roots, usually an annual link with a blade of leaves, but a small piece of rhizome with dormant buds can also be used to propagate valuable varieties. A piece of iris rhizome weighing only half a gram with one dormant bud can, under favorable conditions, give life to a new plant, which will bloom in the second year of vegetation! The iris rhizomes without roots and leaves remaining after cutting are cut off, removing the damaged parts, powdered with crushed charcoal, dried and planted on a separate bed for growing in the next season.

The rhizomes of the cut are disinfected for 1-2 hours in a solution of beet-colored potassium permanganate, dried and warmed up in the sun for 3-5 hours. The leaves and roots of the cut are shortened if their length is more than 10 cm. Bearded irises prefer well-drained, light, without stagnant moisture, soil in the sun, but they also tolerate a little shading (some growers successfully grow them under apple trees with a thin crown). Too acidic soil is sprinkled with wood ash before planting irises. If there is a danger of stagnant melt water in the spring, before planting, a flower bed is made slightly raised above ground level for irises. The distance between plants when planting irises depends on the purpose of planting and the height of the irises: low-growing irises are usually planted after 15 cm, medium-sized ones - after 20 cm, tall ones - after 40 cm.In free landscape compositions, irises are planted in groups of several pieces, placing divisions around the circumference; the distance between groups is not less than 1 m.

Some growers grow the collection of irises on a raised bed according to the scheme of 30x50 cm, turning the leaves of the irises in one direction when planting and directing the plane of the leaves across the ridges. Before planting irises, the soil should be dug up on the bayonet of a shovel, and a bucket of compost or well-rotted manure per square meter should be applied as fertilizer. (fresh manure is not used in order to avoid rotting rhizomes), make planting holes, but the bottom of which should be covered with a mound of earth. The rhizome of the cut is laid on a mound so that after planting it protrudes halfway above the soil level, spread the roots on the sides of the mound and cover the hole with earth, carefully compacting it with your hands. Deepening the rhizome into the soil can lead to the death of the iris.

The iris rhizome can be secured against falling and for rapid rooting with wire bows or wooden slingshots. After planting irises, the ground is watered abundantly with water; after it dries up, repeated watering is desirable after a few days. Further care after planting irises, it consists in manual weeding (so as not to damage the roots of irises located at the soil surface), shallow loosening of the soil. New plantings of irises need shelter in late autumn from freezing: hilling with earth or falling asleep with leaves, straw, needles, tops of up to 10 cm; the shelter is removed in early spring.

There is a special anti-vandal property - you don't want to rip them off! When the question arises of what flowers to plant near a house or an entrance, irises are often subconsciously chosen (they are cockerels, or killer whales). A huge number of different shades have determined their name: irises are named after the goddess of the rainbow.

They bloom in the spring, and some varieties bloom again in the fall. These perennial plants bloom especially magnificently in the 3rd year after planting. Rhizome irises are extremely unpretentious and are not afraid of winter. So the former became wild flower urban.

Maybe for some it will turn out to be a discovery, but under the general name "iris" there are actually very similar externally, but different plants: rhizome and bulbous iris. The latter, in turn, includes three genera:, and juno. Each of them has its own characteristics.

Planting irises

Rhizome irises photophilous. But they can bloom under a tree, especially in the southern regions. Most of all they do not like excesses: excess and waterlogging of the soil can destroy them.

If you have a choice, purchase large rhizomes - they have more stock nutrients... If the division has 7 or more leaves, the iris will bloom the next year, in spring.

Optimal planting time bearded irises - late summer, August. But in practice, rhizome irises are divided and transplanted either during flowering, or immediately after its completion (within a month).

For all the simplicity of irises you cannot plant them in heavy soil... Add sand and peat, shovel well this mixture. Depleted soil can be fertilized with a minimum nitrogen content. On acidic soil irises grow vigorously leaves, but do not bloom or bloom weakly. In this case, soil with ash or chalk.

If ground water close, think about soil drainage... Then you will avoid the most unpleasant disease for irises - root rot.

The earth is dug onto the bayonet of the shovel. Fertilizers (if necessary) are applied a week before planting. It should be planted shallowly, so that the bud is at the surface level (the upper part of the rhizome cannot be covered with earth), the leaves should be arranged vertically. Leave about 40 cm between plants for further growth. Water immediately after planting. The next watering is not earlier than 3 days later.

It happens, for some reason, you need 2 weeks to save the planting material. Do not keep rhizomes in plastic bags or damp cloth. Store them in a cool dry place, always with good ventilation.

Bulbous iriseslove the sun, moisture and well-warmed fertile loose soil. The most undemanding to watering is Juno, she loves arid places. Sunny rocky slides - the best place for her.

Landing dates: in middle lane - in mid-September, in the south - in mid-October. It is better to cover the planting for the winter. In the spring, they will grow very early, sometimes even the snow will not have time to melt. Planting depth - 2 bulb heights, but not less than 5 cm.

After flowering (May-June) for a month, when the leaves are about half dry, the bulbs need to be dug out. The main thing is not to miss the moment: if they are flooded with rains, the risk of injury will increase fungal diseases... The dug out bulbs are washed in a 0.2% solution of potassium permanganate or other, quickly dried and stored in a dry, ventilated room until planting.

Per rhizome irises minimal care. At first, weeds are pulled out by hands, since root system flowers are located at the very surface of the soil. It is also necessary to loosen carefully. When the bearded irises grow, weeding and loosening will be unnecessary.

Bulbous views require more care. In autumn yellow leaves and with brown spots be sure to delete. In exotic species, the leaves are cut to half the length. At the end of autumn, heat-loving varieties are sheltered. In early spring hurry to remove the "coverlet".

Withered flowers are always removed by cutting off the peduncle as close to the rhizome as possible.

Watering

In a dry summer blooming irises watered in the evening, making sure that no water gets on the flowers.

In windy places, tall irises are tied up: the peduncles can break under the weight of the flowers.

Top dressing

It is advisable to feed both rhizome and bulbous irises three times:

in the spring;
during the period of bud formation;
rhizome - in August, bulbous - within a month after flowering.

Protection from pests and diseases

You can spray irises against pests once every 2 weeks (if necessary). Treatments are most effective 6 weeks before flowering. Usually this is not necessary, pests are not the main enemy of irises.

If rot appears on the rhizomes, it must be cleaned out to a healthy tissue, then treated with a special solution. Then the rhizome is dried all day in the open air, occasionally turning it over. The soil from the place where the iris grew is removed.

Types of irises

There are many types and varieties of irises, it is impossible to list them all in one article. Therefore, let's pay attention to the most popular ones.

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The cockerels familiar to all - bearded irises.

Have bulbous ksifiums smaller size flower, but there are also plenty of varieties. The chic broadleaf Dutch varieties are especially beautiful:

"Blue Champion";
"Ideal";
"Symphony".

And narrow-leaved:

Seafire Beauty;
"Yellow Queen".

Some varieties iridodictium boast a delicate petal pattern.

By the flowers juno flowers are rather narrow petals.

Your flowers will be healthy if you love them. Have a nice season!

The rhizome of this flower is called "violet root", and its aroma really resembles the faint smell of violets. In this article, we will talk about existing types and varieties of irises. You will learn how to properly plant a crop and how to care for it so that it can be grown in open ground was successful.

Iris ( russian name flower - iris) is a rhizome perennial with xiphoid leaves with a waxy bloom and thin, fibrous roots.

Irises can be found on many summer cottages... However, not all growers know how many varieties of these flowers have been bred by breeders.

Multicolored iris flowers (petal color - from white to dark purple) outwardly similar to orchids, have a pleasant weak aroma. Some varieties garden irises have a "beard" on the lower petals. Iris bloom begins in May and lasts until June: each individual flower remains decorative for about a week. The seeds of the plant ripen in autumn, in triangular capsules that contain 25 to 45 seeds.

Modern types and varieties of irises are so varied, beautiful and fragrant that it is difficult to make a choice when growing outdoors in favor of any one variety.

Varieties and varieties of iris

There are the main varieties of irises that are grown in summer cottages, in open ground in parks and squares, used when arranging compositions in landscape design.

Bearded iris

Bearded iris (I. barbata) - this species is divided in turn into three subspecies, depending on the height of the plant:

undersized - plant height does not exceed 40 cm;
medium-sized - plants reach a height of 70 cm;
tall - above 70 cm.

The species got its name for the decorative "beard" that adorns the lower petals of the flower in the middle. The color of the flowers of the bearded iris varies from pale blue to dark purple. Breeders have bred a huge number of new varieties of bearded iris, including two-color ones with edged petals. These varieties are very decorative, compact, with large flowers and exciting aroma.

Iris Russian

Iris Russian (I. ruthenia Ker-Gawler) - forms low dense "cushions" - curtains. Varieties of Russian iris bloom with medium-sized flowers of pale colors. It perfectly tolerates short-term drying out of the soil. In landscape design, it is used to decorate rocky slides and rock gardens, where rare watering is required.

Siberian iris

Siberian iris, which is actually called the iris, is a tall plant, reaches 1 m. Flowers are rich, purple with shades of blue. Siberian iris and its hybrids bred by breeders are distinguished into a separate subspecies of irises: limniris. Plants of this subgroup have no “beard” on the limb of the petals.

Iris marsh

Iris marsh, or yellow, grows in nature along the shores of lakes, rivers, along the slopes of humid ravines. It can thrive and bloom well on saline soils, at high outside temperatures. These varieties of iris are successfully used in landscape design for decoration artificial reservoirs: outdoor pools, ponds, waterfalls, iris tolerates excessive watering, looks great with decorative planting.

Iris smooth

Iris smooth (I. laevigata Fisch) - growing at high humidity air; abundant watering is required. It is planted by water bodies.

German iris

Iris German - with leaves like a sword and flowers on tall, strong peduncles, up to 90 cm long. The plant is suitable for decorating bouquets, grown for cutting.

Iris dwarf

Iris dwarf - a low plant, in total reaches a size of 10 cm. When grown in open ground, forms dense clumps. Small flowers have a variety of colors.

Iris Kempfer

Iris Kempfer (another name - xiphoid iris) refers to late varieties species irises. Leaves 30-40 cm high frame the flat flowers of the xiphoid iris. Peduncles reach 60-70 cm.

Japanese iris

Japanese iris - an extensive species of irises, which is divided into subgroups depending on the size of the flower. The cultivation of these varieties is most preferable because of the high decorativeness of flowers. Japanese irises often form double flowers in different terms (early, middle, late, very late). Japanese iris flowers are colored in all shades of rich purple. Flowers of this subgroup do not tolerate wintering well.

Planting a plant

Irises - planting and caring for plants of all botanical species in the open field is about the same.

Foreign breeders have developed varieties of tuber irises, the cultivation of which is not difficult. These flowers are low in height and narrow, graceful petals of bright, rich colors. Planting material goes on sale in the fall, planting is done before winter.

To plant the bulbs, a trench is dug, the excavated soil is mixed with:

sand;
double superforce;
crushed coal;
fresh garden soil.

Leave enough space between plants when planting

In the prepared grooves, the bottom of which is sprinkled with sand (you can spill it with a pink solution of potassium permanganate, epin or heteroauxin), the iris bulbs are laid out, sprouting up.

Important! Do not deeply bury the bulbs in the ground. Rule: small-bulbous ones are usually planted to a depth of 3 bulb heights.

Planting small-bulb irises does not require watering, there is enough moisture that was used to irrigate the planting furrow. The soil from above needs to be lightly tamped so that the birds cannot pull out the bulbs before they take root. Small-bulb irises will start blooming next spring.

Growing. Bearded irises

Planting bearded irises requires compliance with certain rules:

Remember to feed bearded irises very carefully.

When planting, you must not add fresh manure, compost or nitrogen fertilizers to the garden bed.
Chalk or lime should be added to acidic soil. The acidity of the soil should be reduced.
It is not allowed to plant iris rhizomes in dense, caked soil. Pre-digging the soil with a shovel bayonet and adding sand will make the soil more acceptable for growing your irises in the open field.
The rhizomes of bearded irises are not buried in the soil: the buds should be at the level of the upper soil layer.

Correct care

Iris in landscape design

Very often, iris is used when planting in parks, squares, when decorating territories in landscape design. The huge variety of varieties and species, as well as the high resistance of the plant itself, make it possible to use this culture more widely for landscaping. Curtains of irises of different varieties look great on a lawn carpet.

"Fields" of irises of different colors look very nice

Mono-plantings of iris culture adorn urban areas and do not require serious maintenance. This culture has the advantage - perennial planting in one place and preservation of the decorative appearance.

Iris care: video

Iris varieties: photo

Iris (Iris, Petushki) - perennial from the genus rhizome. Irises can be found in almost every vegetable garden, garden and park. There are over 700 species, which are characterized by a variety of shapes and colors.

For this reason, the people called this flower rainbow. They say that since ancient times iris was named after the goddess of the rainbow Iris. Outwardly, iris flowers are very similar to orchids and have the same rich spectrum of shades.

Varieties and types

Gained wide popularity due to the presence of shaggy hairs on the petals. This type of irises is different sizes (dwarf, tall, dining room and others).

An important point when growing is that you need to plant this type of iris on the sand. To do this, sand is poured onto the bottom of the prepared hole (in a small layer) and then spread, carefully distributing the rhizome. Landing should not be deep.

It grows up to 80 cm high, while having flowers up to 10 cm, of various colors. The natural color of this species has many shades from blue to dark purple.

As for some hybrid varieties, there are:

white ( Snow Queen ),

pink ( Imperial opal ),

yellow with white edging ( Batts & Suga ).

With all this diversity, there is a significant disadvantage of this type - there is no aroma at all.

(its other name xiphoid ) has large flowers (about 25 cm in diameter), which are most similar to orchid flowers.

- one of large species (about one meter in height), drought and frost resistant. The flowers are lacy, have a bright yellow center and a white (dark purple, blue-purple and others) border.

The clear difference from other species is the fact that this iris only grows in moist soil. For this reason, it is most often used to decorate water bodies.

- reaches only 15 cm in height, has wide leaves and yellow or purple flowers.

(xyphilum ) – hybrid variety, first introduced in Holland. They grow to a height of no more than 50-60 cm. Flowers have different shades of petals: white, yellow, orange, blue and purple.

Winter-hardy, but during severe winters requires additional shelter. Often this type of irises is used for cutting, forming bouquets.

- highly interesting flower, which is translated from Latin "spuria" means "false". Received its name for the external similarity with Dutch irises.

The main advantage is that the flowering period is longer (several weeks). The period of "life" of one flower is a week.

Iris planting and care in the open field

Irises are light-loving plants, therefore, the key to a long and variegated flowering is their location in a well-lit area.

During planting, it is worth considering the fact that irises are able to move. So in one year, they can move away from their original location by several centimeters. Therefore, planting is carried out not in a standard way (in a row), but as a fan of leaves along the row. Planting conditions for each species are different.

So, for example, it is worth planting bearded irises on that piece of land where good illumination is observed in the first half of the day, it is better if it is a slope or a hill (for the outflow of melt water) and the presence of drainage. As for marsh and Siberian irises, they are the opposite. they like the soil to be constantly moist.

But at the same time, all species love rich soil, therefore, if necessary, in the spring, before planting, compost is applied (do not use manure) and potash-phosphorus fertilizers... If the soil is acidic, then you can add a little chalk or wood ash... And be sure, before planting, it is necessary to treat the area with herbicides and moisten it with a fungicide (for disinfection).

Watering irises

It is worth watering the plant only after the soil around the bush has completely dried. If there is a possibility that groundwater flows close to the surface, then it is worth taking care of drainage in advance.

The first watering is carried out immediately after planting, and the next one - not earlier than three days later.

Top dressing of irises in spring

For lush bloom and good growth irises, like all plants, need feeding and fertilization. However, you should not use manure, the irises will start to hurt from it.

For feeding, you should use complex mineral fertilizerscontaining phosphorus, nitrogen and potassium. Scatter it around the bushes in the spring after the irises start to grow. After that, the soil should be watered to accelerate the dissolution of the granules.

Also, do not forget that an overabundance of fertilizers is also very harmful to plants, as well as a lack of them; as with watering, it is better not to feed them a little than to overfeed them. Some of the gardeners may object: why feed and tinker with irises, because they will bloom without it. But this is debatable.

For a dozen years of growing irises, there have been periods when no fertilizing was carried out at all for about three years in a row - and the difference was very noticeable. If you use fertilizers, irises bloom more abundantly and much more magnificently, their flowers are brighter and larger, the leaves are healthy and glossy, and the peduncles are strong enough, which even with strong wind do not break, which do not require tying at all.

But the main thing is that the growth of such bushes occurs much faster. For these reasons, the answer to the question whether to feed or not is unambiguous - to feed, but at the same time wisely and in moderation. I have already worked out a feeding scheme with a complex of micro and macro elements once a season before the beginning of the flowering period. From my irises, I notice that they like it, they grow very quickly and bloom gorgeous.

Preparing irises for winter

Due to the characteristic feature of irises, which consists in the fact that their root system grows horizontally, sometimes their roots are exposed above the surface, so in winter they need to be sprinkled with additional earth and peat, otherwise they will freeze out. In the spring, this layer of soil is carefully removed.

Leaves, straw, corn stalks as a covering material, or any other material under which the irises can grow out, are categorically unsuitable for irises. It is better to use the ground for cover. Pour some handfuls of soil into the middle of the bush in order to cover the exposed rhizomes.

When snow falls, it can also be used as a shelter, additionally adding it to the planting of irises. And in spring, after the soil dries up, the excess soil should be carefully distributed around the bushes. And yet, in the matter of hiding irises on winter period It is impossible to give a definite advice for all gardeners.

Since, when growing irises in the southern regions, you can completely do without shelter for the winter, but in the east and north of Russia, some varieties simply need preventive shelter.

Reproduction of irises

There are three ways of reproduction of irises - by seeds, sprouts or rhizomes.

At the same time, the main difference between these methods is that the flowering of irises grown from seeds should be expected only in the second or third year, and flowers grown from the rhizome will bloom in the first year.

Reproduction of irises by dividing the bush

When dividing a bush, only the healthiest bushes are selected. Having dug up all the rhizomes from the ground, it is necessary to thoroughly shake off all the ground in order to see each root well, then cut into small areas, so that each part has one sheet bundle. The leaves are cut in half.

Then it is necessary to disinfect in a weak solution of potassium permanganate (dip the roots in the solution for 10-15 minutes), and dry in the sun. Plant in small pits, no deeper than 3-4 cm and at a distance of no closer than half a meter.

Vegetative propagation of iris

For propagation by sprouts, it is necessary to wait for at least one flowering of the plant, only after that you can safely use the young shoots. At the same time, it is worth cutting them off before the buds appear.

Rooting is carried out by planting in the ground in a shaded place, creating a greenhouse. Spray if necessary. After 2-3 weeks, complete rooting can be observed.

Iris growing from seed

After flowering, collect the dried ovaries. They can be stored in boxes in a dark and dry place. In autumn, prepared seeds are planted in pots with a sandy substrate and covered with glass or polyethylene (create a greenhouse). Closer to spring, the seedlings will sprout, they must be thinned out.

Youngsters are planted only after they have grown up enough to be conveniently planted. It is worth noting that only species-specific irises can be propagated in this way, but with varietal ones, problems may arise with the preservation of maternal characteristics.

Bacteriosis or soft rot of iris rhizomes

One of the dangerous diseases that affects irises is soft edge, bacterial, rhizome rot ... The plant dies with a strong degree of infection.

The signs of this disease are leaf decay at the base of the rhizomes, while the leaves remain green and simply fall out in whole fans. The rhizomes themselves turn into a fetid muck inside. The affected bushes should be completely dug out, all damaged areas should be cut out, reaching healthy tissue, the cutting tool should be disinfected each time.

Divide the bushes, sprinkle the cuts with crushed coal, and then spread them in the sun to the top with rhizomes for one or two days, for a pretty warm. Do not be afraid that the irises will dry out. Such procedures are a way of saving sick plants. After that, the delenki that have dried up and warmed up are transplanted to a new site, and watered.

The soil on the contaminated site is disinfected with a solution of potassium permanganate, and the contaminated material is burned. With moderate damage to the rhizomes during the noticed disease, it is possible to save irises in almost one hundred percent of cases.

Irises rust stains

In the spring and summer periods on the leaves of irises may appear rust stains , which grow over time, causing the leaves to gradually dry out. These stains spread especially rapidly at high humidity.

To prevent leaf spotting, irises should be treated with fungicides, in the spring, at the very beginning of intensive plant growth, with a mandatory repeat after ten to fourteen days to consolidate the results.

And at the beginning of the flowering period, a control treatment is carried out. It should also be taken into account that drug solutions on the leaves do not hold well, for this reason, special adhesives should be added.