Bountiful Bulbs Need Dividing
Judy Glattstein (Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:02:56 PDT)

Jim McKenney was wondering why gardens were not bursting with bulbs.
Mine may not be characterized as "bursting" but there are bulbs that
definitely need dividing and I am - as is typical in Spring - falling
behind with "to do" list day by day.

So - no question but what I will give priority to overgrown colonies of
Galanthus

Ignore Corydalis solida seeding into paths and elsewhere. It can just
take its chances (not that anything will discourage it)

Nectaroscordum - how deep do you think they've pulled themselves? Do I
stand a chance with a poaching spade after the flowers fade?

What about colchicum? Can I wait until fall, as their flowers fade or
must it be as the leaves yellow off in June?

Camassia - I know they're deep in the ground by now. Ignore? Try to dig
as the flowers fade?

Frittilaria imperialis - they've made 4 good size colonies on a terrible
site of part shade, semi-subsoil clay, on a slope. I'm reluctant to
touch them since they're so happy. And really have no where else to
plant any, as every Spring my husband mutters about their awful smell
(which I like, but then, I like l'eau de Pepe Le Pew)

Suggestions? Advice?

Judy in sunny and warm New Jersey where today's forecast rain has not
yet arrived