Iris is so tolerant of abuse it must have been an exceptional winter to kill them. Or some creature that really nails them.

I dug a bed today for a new home for some cannas by my front porch. I'll do the transplanting tomorrow and they'll now live at the side of the house and will benefit from my foundation soaker hose.

These always end up kind of tattered looking with worms that wrap up the leaves and other things that eat holes across the veins. I haven't cared enough for them to try to do anything about them, but with this trouble of transplanting, I'll give them a little more TLC. Any suggestions to keep leaf rollers and other diners out of the cannas? Is this the place to try the self-rising flour (or diatomaceous earth)?

SRS