Hi I’m in San Francisco CA and have been enjoying growing drimia maritima bulbs for a few years. Most are doing great for me, but a few weeks ago I noticed that while most of my drimia bulbs right now are pushing out their winter green growth, one of my bulbs (massive, about 8” in diameter) seems to be rotting from the top. I dug it up, and the bottom of the bulb is very firm, good roots, etc. See photos here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/HocJ3Xhg5CE9YaBHA/ This may seem a little silly since it’s just one bulb, but it’s quite an old bulb, and I’d love to save it if possible. I scraped out most of the rotten part, including some maggots (yum) and noticed there does seem to be some new growth trying to come up, though not from the center, exactly. My question is: how do I keep this new divot from just filling with rain and rotting more? Is there something I should fill it with? Or maybe make a very tiny umbrella for it?! Or just give up on it? Also would love to know if this has happened to others, if there’s anything I can do to prevent this kind of thing in the future with my other bulbs. I have a horrible problem with voles so normally I would attribute this type of damage to a story like “a vole ate all the foliage and a little bit of the top of the bulb, then rain filled the hole that the vole made, then it started rotting” — but drimia is literally the stuff that they used to use to make rat poison, so I doubt a vole ate it…. Paul _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…