About 40 years ago I planted two Erythronium revolutum. Despite my sending seeds to several seed exchanges each year, they managed to seed themselves so that I had hundreds, and their pink flowers were one of the joys of spring every year. Till last year. I couldn't see any. Had the deer eaten all the flowers? But there weren't any leaves, either. Then I noticed Anemone nemorosa leaves along the whole border. This is a wild form with incredibly long twiggy rhizomes, not the short-rhizomed named forms. It had been way down at one end of the bed, and while I wasn't paying attention it had zoomed over the Erythronium territory where its intertwined rhizomes had completely blocked Erythronium access to the sky.. I began digging it out, and bucket loads went into the garbage. I cleared about a quarter of the area. Today there are ten wan-looking flowers and lots of single leaves in the cleared area. I started clearing again. It is going to take a couple of years for them to get their strength back. Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…