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Louisiana Irises in containers outside all winter?

15 years ago

I've grown Louisiana Iris for several decades with great success, but this summer I had to clean out and thin the Iris bed. I planted like 100 Iris in 4 of these long vintage concrete planters and they exploded with new growth and are doing better than I could ever expect. Anyhow, my q is, wonder how they'll do in those planters if we get a hard freeze? Normally, it gets in the mid 20's in the winter here but has been known to get colder, though pretty rare.. Anyone know if they'll make it? Thanks.

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sylviatexas1
15 years ago
Mine always froze & died back but returned in the spring.
warart
Original Author
15 years ago
These are my Irises in 1 of 4 old vintage planters I have, all 4 pretty much look the same. They're really happy in these planters!! These planters are right at 3 feet long and pretty narrow. (don't look at my messy planting area)
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warart
Original Author
15 years ago
I'm trying once again to post a photo. It is showing up on the preview, like the other one did, so if it doesn't appear on the post, I have no idea what happened. The photo was taken the day I posted the original post.
warart
Original Author
15 years ago
A couple of days ago it got down to near 20 degrees here and my Iris's look like they made it just fine.

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