My experience has been that the Dutch do not cut and gather from their gardens the blossoms growing there. Suggest as I might that the enjoyment is prolonged. it doesn’t happen. These stems are a bit more than a yard in length. What happens when beautiful, strong iris, can not support themselves in an upright position, I don’t know. My first attempt was to brace them with bamboo pole supports, but the number of the in-the-bent-over-position outnumbered the poles available. Thus, I cut them off and brought them in the house. I don’t know if they are going to find that to their liking but for today, here they are.