Depending how little they are, optimistically, you will see a few blooms next spring. Check out the pic at the link below. I'm thinking I have dug and moved offsets that size before and had some of them bloom the following spring. I guess time will tell...please keep us posted. That reminds me...I'm having a new propane gas tank set this coming week and need to dig and rescue the reticulatas before they come. I know the 2 clumps bloomed and maybe can tell how many blooms there were, so it will be interesting to see how big the bulbs or offsets are. I wonder if there will be a bazillion. Sue Here is a link that might be useful: scroll down to the pic of Iris reticulata bulb clump

I don't know. I planted snow drops the fall before last and they never returned. I see crocus coming up, but nothing yet. The large part of my early bulbs are under multiple feet of snow still where all the snow from my driveway gets pushed, so I won't see most of my crocus and reticulata until mid april. If anyone is interested, I would love to trade for some over bloom snow drops this year. I have seen huge waves of them and always wanted some, but I never see them in stores.

I especially like the color of the blue ones. Lovely! I like the detail in the second photograph.

No squirrel problems with mine. I have big patches of Harmony and Pixie, both dark blues, and another of Springtime, a two-toned blue. Mine bloom very early, a few weeks before my crocuses bloom. They have returned well over the past 3-4 years. (Another similar iris, Iris danfordiae (golden yellow) that I tried between the blue patches was much less successful.) A small warning - just so you can take it into consideration when deciding where to plant yours - Iris reticulata foliage is not as clean as most minor bulbs are. After bloom the iris put up tall very thin blue-greenish foliage, usually just one stalk per bulb. It elongates from a couple of inches to about 12 inches over a period of a week or two and takes awhile to die back. The foliage is not heavy looking, but if you have a lot of bulbs as I do, it is quite noticeable. I have my Iris reticulata in a bed of small daylilies. The daylilies do not emerge until weeks after the Iris is done. Once the iris foliage gets limpish I take a couple of minutes & sort of tuck it under the growing strap-like foliage of the DLs. Once the iris foliage dies the daylily bed looks like it is mulched with a thin layer of very long pine needles, which eventually disappears by mid summer.