0:00 Irish germanica German iris they are

0:04 really really lovely plants and a huge

0:06 huge variety color and semi colors and

0:09 shades of colors that you can possibly

0:12 imagine very easy to grow like a lot of

0:15 Sun now it's it's a rhizome like this

0:18 and that's got to be baked by the Sun

0:20 you can plant Li straight out into your

0:22 borders and they'll grow away quite

0:24 happily and be left alone and formed

0:26 quite a big clump I'm I'm as with most

0:29 in gardening I want it I want it now and

0:32 I want it quicker so I'm going to plant

0:34 them in pots just to actually bring them

0:36 on before I actually put them out in

0:38 borders few pebbles I've got these old

0:41 decorative pebbles any sort of pebbles

0:44 do just for the drainage because they

0:46 don't like to be water lost most plants

0:48 don't what they what they really want is

0:51 a damp moisture rich compost but not

0:55 soaking wet now the roots come like this

0:59 this anchor roots and the roots will

1:01 automatically drag this plant down this

1:03 is where the feedings coming from the

1:05 fine fibrous roots the big thick fleshy

1:08 roots are really the anchor roots they

1:09 hold it into the ground now they will go

1:12 quite nicely on there more compost in

1:16 the bottom to cover those roots bear in

1:19 mind that you hold the rhizome up all

1:21 the time keep that because that only

1:24 goes on the very surface of the compost

1:28 now I'm going to plant these on so you

1:31 push that down make it nice and firm

1:34 push that into the top of the compost

1:37 and sort of only half plant it if you

1:42 like

1:42 only half bury that that corn because as

1:45 much as soon as we can get onto that

1:48 rhizome there is what we need to beat

1:52 down on that because that creates the

1:54 food that creates the leaves and the

1:56 flower and the flowers are magnificent

1:58 beautiful bearded iris are up in a clump

2:01 or a joy to the eye they really are and

2:04 the varieties and colors that they bring

2:05 out now is endless iris are a great

2:09 variety of plants whether you buy them

2:10 and plant them in the autumn or in the

2:12 spring makes

2:13 no difference if you do it in the autumn

2:15 just make sure you cover them over with

2:17 them all just for the worst of the frost

2:18 but otherwise that both do very well

2:21 now a few varieties to keep an out for

2:23 loop-de-loop creamy white gala Madrid

2:27 purple with a red by color superstition

2:31 dark dark blue almost black nigh

2:34 belongin yellow and purple how would

2:37 weed orange red bicolor and chanted one

2:41 yellow purple and bronze Sultan's Palace

2:44 has a name rich velvet orange red or

2:48 nightfall purple near black bicolor I

2:51 tell you what the variety really is

2:54 endless for color but they're wonderful

2:57 plants and I'll give you a joy for many

2:59 years to come bliss and that's all you

3:02 need to do with that that'll route quite

3:04 happily it's the end of fed now I'm

3:07 going to grow that on let the frost get

3:09 by let the ground warm up a bit bear in

3:11 mind that the ground and the air

3:13 temperature is slightly different so

3:14 this will go out probably May time when

3:18 when the grounds warmed up nicely that

3:20 will grow grow away and I'm looking

3:23 forward to some beautiful flowers off

3:24 that a big clump of different colors

3:27 different varieties they really are a

3:29 beautiful range of plants

3:39 so six weeks on in the pot and these

3:42 Irish germanica are going in now it's

3:46 quite shady this garden and there's not

3:48 too many hot spots but this is quite a

3:50 good one this spot along here catches a

3:52 lot of Sun and that's what they need

3:54 they need a baking Sun to feed that ball

3:57 to throw a good flower and the flowers

4:00 spectacular

4:00 so I'm trying it in this spot it might

4:03 or it might not work but I think it

4:04 might and when it does the pictures are

4:07 going to speak spectacular fantastic

4:09 Irish germanica you can't go wrong for a

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