Looks like I will have a pretty good bloom season, with a few SDB buds showing, and ALLAH (I think it is an IB,not sure) leading the way again this year.

But I have a strange problem on alot of the iris: Leaves have gotten stuck inside the fans causing some iris to look like stunted malformed lumps!

I have been 'freeing' the leaves from the centers of these fans, but I wonder does anybody know why this happened? Does this mean the plant is not going to be able to produce a bloom stalk? The 'freed' iris still look pretty bad: crumpled and misshapen, with poor growth, but definitely not dead or rotting. I was thinking of just cutting off the fan cleanly on the severly deformed ones to give them a second chance.

Any suggestions?

Laetitia