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<\/a><\/p>\nIf you like Iris reticulata and a good travel yarn then you could do a lot worse than read ‘Buried Treasures: Finding and Growing the World’s Choicest Bulbs’ by Janis Ruksans <\/a> <\/p>\n Janis Ruksans has been growing bulbs since age twelve and from 1991 has operated his own bulb nursery<\/a> in his native Latvia. Janis is an expert specializing in rare and unusual bulbs. This book includes stories of his travels on several expeditions searching for new bulbs throughout Europe and Central Asia. He has also written a respected work<\/a> on ‘Crocuses A complete guide to the genus’.<\/strong><\/p>\n Unusually late these Iris reticulata normally bloom in the wild as soon as the snow melts on the mountain side. Other Links<\/strong> Small Iris bulbs should be replanted and thinned every 2-3 years to retain flower power. If you can’t see these bulbs in the wild read the wild stories of a Latvian bulb collector Janis Ruskans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-14451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers","tag-bulbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Book](\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0881928186.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\")
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\nI think of Janis as the wild ‘ iris bulb man’<\/strong> for the work he performs on breeding the various varieties in his Latvian nursery.<\/p>\n![\"June](\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8163\/7163135071_96e3b8b573.jpg\")
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\nNormally in the wild they remain dry during summer.
\nThe bulbs should be replanted and thinned every 2-3 years to retain flower power.<\/p>\n
\nLook Forward to Winter and Iris Reticulata<\/a>
\nIris Reticulata and Histroides Species<\/a>
\nGrowing Iris From Bulbs<\/a>
\nTips for Growing Spring Iris from Bulbs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"