September 17, 2019 Planting Iris like Mom with Rebecca Stoner Kirts, Olaus Rudbeck, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Peter Barr, The Milkweed Poem, Hot Color Dry Garden by Nan Sterman, Pumpkin Care, and the Story of a Grass Reader

Summary: Listener Rebecca Stoner Kirts recently shared a photo in the Facebook Group  of her transplanted iris along with an enchanting caption.  She wrote: Mom's 50 year iris rescued and replanted. Mom always told me, “they like their own space and plant them like ducks floating on a pond." There you go mom. Rebecca's mom's analogy of planting iris like ducks floating on the pond is a good one to remember. As I mentioned on a show a while back, they don't like to be buried...