My beds are small and quite quaint, but it's what I have. They surround the house about 4 to 6 ft deep to the walls. Soil is basically concrete mix without the cement. Trying to fix that with every hole I dig.
I've not tried to grow any of the Asian varieties from seed. I have only bought or traded for the rhizomes to get the big fancy ones.
I did find a small stand of native Indiana irises once in late summer, woods area.
I took two pods for myself and scattered about forty more around the area.
I had five or six of those seeds come up first year and were still there making a statment twenty yrs later when we had to move.
Good luck with your Japanese seeds.
Be patient. Some seeds take more than one winter cycle to germinate.
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