They self sow in my garden. So fresh seed dropping to the ground and receiving a bit of winter chill will grow easily. I've never seen the seeds looking like raisins. They are plump orange berries when I see them. Only one way to find out if yours are too far gone.

They self sow easily in my garden as well. In fact, they do so so happily that I finally removed 95% of them as they formed a far too large a colony, given the size of my tiny plot.

This is an excellent plant for dry shade and I find that type of siting will reduce their tendency to spread wantonly.

ok, so, as it is not much risk, I will try them in some winter sowing contraption,

have a nice weekend,

Lin

Let us know how it turns out.

sooo

I came into some Iris foetidissima today

the aforementioned clump, turns out, we redo the bed, public planting, and so it had to go. The communal / city head gardener could not care less and offered to dig it out with some digger/ power shovel,

but I declined and got my dutch super spade and got the whole multiple clump. I drop it off at a nursery tomorrow and they pott them up for a project I design and they plant.

two things were interesting

there were about 3 very tiny seedlings apart from the big group, despite the total neglect, heat and draught and some hours of direct sunlight in the border

and the Iris leaves had funneld seeds, leaves and debris from nearby trees to the base and probably gotten some helpfull nutrients from it, the rhizomes were all firm and happy when digging them up today

as they seem to thrive on neglect, even in sunny spots, I plan do throw some seeds in a shaded spot of my alottment, fresh ones from today and the shriveled-up well traveled ones from my MIL andnsee what happens

and some picks so you too can anjoy the quantitiy of this weird, slow plant

have a great evening, bye, Lin

the soil underneath was loess (the midle fine grain) with a little clay perhaps (so, a loamish mixture?)

the mulch

half of the clump

and all thestuff and the spade on my bicycle ;-)

I have not see them flowering but my guess is that it is the plain, broring washed out purple-yellow mishmash, but I think you grow them for the berries and the evergreen foliage.

THe nursery texteted me yesterday, the clump diveded into 87 divisions, yey, I put a small bunch aside for myself and am curious to see how they carry on after planting