Iris seed starting basics
This post is meant to be a quick stab at the topic of starting iris seeds. On the surface, this should be straight forward. Stick seeds in dirt, watch them come up, poof! Irises. My first experiments with growing irises from seed started with Siberian iris, 'Caesar's Brother' which had plentiful seeds the year before. And the truth of the matter is that it is a little bit more complex than that... but not that terribly difficult. The first question is where does one get iris seeds? What sort of iris seeds are you wanting to try to grow? Do you have enough room to grow a lot of plants or just a few? Wait, I thought I said this was going to be simple. Okay, the simplest place to get iris seeds is from your own irises. If bees have pollinated your plants, you'll see lovely swollen seed pods where the flowers used to be. Let those seed pods dry until just before they crack open. Then harvest them (with notes about what the name of the variety you gathered them from [this...