I think that would be a good idea re a new pond, but a plastic bowl can be split by those Iris too. They are very, very hefty and thuggish. You'd need a really sturdy container - metal or something probably. In a pond, if you have it in with other plants , and they're ones which need fed- like water lilies etc, the Iris will just get even more thuggish.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I don't *think it can split the plastic as it's a semi sphere - the lily roots just grew to fit, that's how the sparrows were bathing in the shallows! 😄 I never fed them, they lived in Silt City. I might do a bog pond behind the slow worm house, they'll probably like it with a stone beach.
I don't know if you've ever tried to dig out flag iris @Slow-worm - but it isn't like a water lily I've done it before, with a smaller pond that was fed from the bigger one, and almost the entire thing was made up of their thick, fibrous, roots - like shrub/tree branches.
They'd eventually populated a lot of the boundary of the garden, as they spread easily in damp ground and water, and the ponds were spring fed from higher up the hill, so there was a natural run off into the surroundings. I don't know if the previous owners had deliberately planted it in the smaller pond, or whether some had just got in by that method. Probably the latter though.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
No I haven't, it's never gone in any of my 'proper' ponds until now - I'm not a masochist. 🤣 The current lot are in baskets so at least I have a marker for chopping.
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In a pond, if you have it in with other plants , and they're ones which need fed- like water lilies etc, the Iris will just get even more thuggish.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I've done it before, with a smaller pond that was fed from the bigger one, and almost the entire thing was made up of their thick, fibrous, roots - like shrub/tree branches.
They'd eventually populated a lot of the boundary of the garden, as they spread easily in damp ground and water, and the ponds were spring fed from higher up the hill, so there was a natural run off into the surroundings.
I don't know if the previous owners had deliberately planted it in the smaller pond, or whether some had just got in by that method. Probably the latter though.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...