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RE: Moving daffs

Same lot, cottage being turned into permanent home. Have you heard the word downsizing? That seems to mean I end up with more square feet than before. That seems to be how it has worked with every move...
Lillian


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Tiede, Karen E" <karen.tiede@eds.com>
Reply-To: perennials@hort.net
To: "'perennials@hort.net'" <perennials@hort.net>
Subject: Moving daffs
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:38:10 -0400

Construction?  On the same lot, or are you moving to somewhere you don't yet
own?

I move and replant them whenever the mood moves me--in the spring just after
blooming, because that's when I can tell which clumps need dividing, or
whenever I inadvertently dig them up because with as many as I have, there's
no keeping track.  Learned this year that if I move them IMMEDIATELY after
blooming, the foliage may stay green which implies to me I might get blooms
next year.  If I want even a few weeks to move them, the foliage dies off
and it takes another season before those particular bulbs are blooming. But
with 2500+- in 1/2 acre, I don't miss the occasional clump.

So--if you can still tell where they are, which implies to me you are
significantly farther north than I am here in 7A, dig 'em and put them where
you want them to be.  Or just set aside another $70 from the construction
budget and go to www.terraceia.com and buy 400 replacements that will be
shipped in the fall.

In my experience, it's pretty hard to kill a daff, apart from slicing it
with a shovel.

(Different bulb--I found some crinums that had been out of the ground,
laying on the surface, for AT LEAST 8 weeks, in May-June several years ago.
They were almost mushy, like onions gone bad. Dropped them in the ground.
3/8 leafed out pretty quickly, and the next year, ALL EIGHT came back.  That
clump will throw about 70 bloom stalks before it's done this season. About
to do the same with some rain lily bulbs I rescued and set aside for a
friend who's been tied up with her mother's cancer.  They're pretty
desiccated, but I bet they're not dead yet.)
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