Are Butterfly Iris pruned like society garlic and red yuccas?
You just cut the leaves back, either eliminating the brown parts of the leaf or eliminating it to the ground if damaged. It is always best to leave as much of the leaf as you can so the plant can gather energy from sunlight. Leaf removal means less energy gathered and slower growth and slower accumulation of food reserves. After a few years of good growth, they can be dug up and divided, much like red yucca, which produces new plants on very short rhizomes separated by dividing individual plants. Society garlic produces a cluster of small bulbs attached to a basal plate that some regard as a rhizome. Probably more information than you wanted. Q: I would like to know if I can get rid of zoysiagrass. When I re-seeded last spring, there must have been some seeds or the birds dropped a few. A: Are you sure it is zoysia? I would think it is probably bermudagrass. Controlling both is about the same if using chemicals. Zoysiagrass can probably be dug up and removed, unlike bermudagrass, since
