Dear Diane - your message was an awesome read. Stories like this make it all worth while to read each and every message on the board. The question I have is - where do you all get these ideas about the plants some of which I never heard of? Do you before bedtime look on the entire ontology of the plant world and decide I want to have this plant? I know that all plants are awesome - but some are really awesome. And the Erythronium revolutum that you mention is one of the most awesome ones. I feel so left out, even though I thought I knew about a lot of plants. Minnesota is a large place, with few people, but it's cold. And there is a lot of grass everywhere. I love it when even at my age - you hand me a totally new plant I have never seem and it looks so awesome. Thank you Diane, really. Luminita On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 8:35 PM, Diane Whitehead <ldiane.whitehead@gmail.com> 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. > > Diane Whitehead > Victoria, British Columbia, Canada > > _______________________________________________ > 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/…