Divide irises when they are dormant in midsummer. After blooming in spring, plants slowly move into a dormant period that lasts for about six weeks during the warmest part of summer. July and August ...

Phil – one of Cal State Long Beach’s rare corpse flowers – is getting ready to bloom, even as early as Saturday, said the university’s botanical curator.

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One of the rare — and pungent — corpse flowers at Cal State Long Beach is set to bloom. The phenomenon could take place as early as Saturday, June 14, said the university’s botanical curator.