Dierama corms

Mary Sue Ittner via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 11:41:16 PDT
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 
https://…
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
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