demise of an Erythronium border

Mike Rummerfield mikerumm@gmail.com
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 09:50:42 PDT
I agree, Jane.  Not to say they are indestructible, but geophytes by their
nature are survivors.  An additional warning: I've had the same experience
with the imminent demise (sorry, Jane) expiration of smaller bulbs as
Diane, but the culprit was *Omphalodes verna, *particularly the blue strain
*.*

Mike
Western Washington
USA

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 9:24 AM, Jane McGary <janemcgary@earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Diane's note is a warning not to let Anemone nemorosa overtop delicate
> bulbs. Yet it also is a testament to the ability of bulbous plants to
> recover.
>
> Demise was the wrong word. Unlike the notorious parrot, these erythroniums
> weren't dead, they were resting.
>
> Jane McGary
>
> Portland, Oregon, USA
>
>
> On 4/9/2018 6:35 PM, Diane Whitehead wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
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