Hi Mary Sue, Ruth Plant is a Dierama expert and can give you good advice. I traveled with her to Drakensberg mountains photographing Dieramas. Ruth has a National collection in the UK. Regards, Laura On Sun, Sep 15, 2024 at 2:50 PM Mary Sue Ittner via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Yesterday my husband dug up some Dierama that had planted itself in an > undesirable spot and had been there for years. I am wondering about > whether I should send them to Bridget for the October BX. In the > wonderful article from Cameron McMaster he wrote for Farmers Weekly I > added to the > wiki: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/… > he wrote: > "It’s more important to re-invigorate clumps of corms by periodically > digging them up, splitting them up and removing the old dead basal > corms. They should then be replanted 50mm to 100mm deep, depending on > the size, > and 50mm or more apart to allow for each corm to clump up without > over-crowding." > I never tried to figure out the species of the ones I grow that were > here when we moved here and then reseeded to new spots. Most are summer > rainfall species, but this one tolerates winter rainfall (and sometimes > a lot of it) and dry summers we have in Northern California. I added > photos of it to the wiki here: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > So my question is, should I send corms to Bridget and if so should I > remove some of the lower corms. Does anyone have any experience with this? > > Mary Sue > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…