Iris danfordiae is notorious for not flowering after the first year. Newly planted bulbs do their thing in the spring, but then divide into innumerable rice grains that seem never to reach flowering size. For many years, I've thought that the problem was that the bulbs were planted too shallowly, and that if planted deeper they wouldn't split up, hence would flower more. Time for a revision of thinking: yesterday, I was visiting a friend on Saltspring Island who showed me with pride a pot of Iris danfordiae flowering quite nicely years after the original planting. His secret? A layer of horse manure at the bottom of the pot. It may be that the solution is very simple: you have to feed the beast heavily. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate on beautiful Vancouver Island http://maps.google.ca/maps/…