We moved into the house we're in back in the fall last year, so I didn't have much of a chance to go through and do anything to the exsisting flowers.

Last night, I pruned back the 8 foot tall rose bush (seriously, the thing was touching our roof, then bending over and growing back down) to about 1 to 1.5 feet tall. I also raked all the dead leaves away from several bulb plants. I can't recall with certainty, but I believe they were irises. They only blooms on them last fall were dead.

Anyway, to my point.. It looked as though the bulbs hadn't been cared for in at least 2 sesaons, as the dead folige from last year AND the year before were still attached to the new growth.

The bulbs are also visable through the dirt, about a quarter of the bub is above the dirt on all the plants. The bulbs were also grown into massive lumps sprouting 4 to 5 plants each.

I know bulbs reproduce themselves, and every few years you need to dig them up, break them apart, and replant them.

However, is this something that I can do now, before they get much bigger or flower? Or should I wait and do this in the fall, when spring flowers should be planted?

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