What is the best time of year to transplant iris bulbs?

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What is the best time of year to transplant iris bulbs?
Once they have quit blooming, you can cut the leaves back, and dig them up. If you need to divide them (most of the time this is true) this is also the time to do it. Check the root for rot, and discard any that show signs of infection; they should be firm, not soft or spongy. Replant them where you wish, keeping them at roughly the same depth they were in their original location.
Reply:DO IT NOW
Reply:The variety of Iris I guess you are talking about ( Iris reticulata) are best transplanted and devided in the Fall.

All bulbous irises die back after Flowering and are Summer dormant.
Reply:Iris is hardy. Best time is fall, but they can be transplanted anytime.. How you do it is more important: while digging , you break every rhizome and trim the green to about an inch and trim off the roots (you can compost the leaves, roots, and unreplantable parts). In preparing the bed you should add a pound of bone meal, and of blood meal per 25 feet of row. Plant them about three inches deep, 6 inches agart... mulch heavily every fall -- I use oak and pecan leaves
Reply:Iris' are vary forgiving. You can transplant them almost any time they are not in bloom with great success.

If you are thinking about doing it this fall, go ahead.

Now realize that they may take 2 years to develope blooms again, but they will survive.

Here in Southern Ohio I've dug them up in the fall and left them in the garage (because I forgot about them) until spring. They took off just as though I had just dug them up.

Good luck
Reply:Right now!
Reply:Bulbous Irises(Irises that grow from bulbs) can be planted in the fall. I have Rhizomatous Irises(Irises that grow from rhizomes, which is like a big fat roots), and the best time to do the transplanting for these are the middle of the summer. You can do yours right now.
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Reply:before the ground freezes....