Luckily the voles eat all the anemones (including nemorosa) and my erythroniums have been undisturbed. I really miss (some of the) the anemones though! Sarah Zone 7a,Enumclaw, WA Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 10, 2018, at 09:24, 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. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…