Re: Advice/blackberry lily

Hi All,
   I am new to this list and new to perennial gardening and have lots to
learn.  I have just had two blackberry lilies (belamcanda) rot at the base
and die only days after planting.  The obvious answer is that the bed is
too wet, but all the other plants are doing well, as far as I can tell.  I
am worried about putting other bulbs in there now.  The bed is somewhat
raised and we prepared it with pine bark mulch, manure, bonemeal,
superphosphate, and lime tilled in and then put mulch on top.
    Also, have any of you planted in a raised bed made up just of compost?
I saw an article in *Fine Gardening* that someone did that.

Thanks, 
Lynn Lamb
Zone7/8, North Carolina
"There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some
stroke of imagination."
		--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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