Next time I'll try a pick axe rather than a spading fork. The ground has a tangled mat of fine roots from the spice bush, /Lindera benzoin/. The colchicums, needless to say, are below that. Not much in the way of roots on the colchicums, just a little tuft of walrus-like bristles. I did cut the flowers off. The few I dug multiplied into 20 when what looked like husky individuals turned out to be multiple corms in a cluster, eager to separate once freed from the soil. A few were somewhat mangled in the digging but were planted anyhow. Barely made a dent in that colony. Of course, as I finished and started for the tool shed to put my tools away today's full overcast began to clear. Why not, just because I'd welcome the much needed rain. Perhaps I should wash my car . . . Judy in western New Jersey where it is dry, dry, very dry.* * -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: BelleWood in Bloom-Colchicum_2020-09_pail of colchicums.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 198900 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…
