When I moved into my previous home 13 years ago, one of the things that first greeted me in the garden was a large patch of lycoris radiati. I was startled to see their stems shooting up from the earth and bursting into a brilliant red spider web of a flower.
Naturally when I left I had to take some with me. No, they are not native but being bulbs they can’t travel far enough to be invasive, can they? I spent an evening digging them out with my bare hands. They were so thick in the dry soil that I could grab whole handfuls of them at once. Harvesting them was so easy that I became greedy and wound up with grocery sacks full.
It is not so easy deciding what to do with them. I tried punching little holes and dropping them in one at a time, but gave that up after about fifty. Now I am resorting to digging trenches and dumping them in. Hopefully they won’t turn out to be mass graves.
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Surely some will make it! I understand that feeling when you are digging bulbs where you just can’t stop, even though you know you can’t use all that you are digging.
I don’t think you can kill them. They planted the AC unit over mine (long before I moved into this house) and they keep coming back poking out from underneath. I have a problem getting them to flower. They only do it for me if we’ve had really soaking rain in August. Otherwise all I get is leaves. Seems to me, though, that no matter how carefully I dig up a clump of them to move them, some tiny bulbs get left behind and up they come the next year.
Did you feed or water yours to make them flower?
Just remember…pointy end UP!
I garden like this too sometimes. Have to.
Let’s see the photo when they bloom.
When we move to Big Bend ( notice I said “when” and not “if”, that’s positive thinking!), most of our garden won’t be adaptable, not to mention such a long distance move.
So we will look forward to discovering new plants!
You are industrious!
I don’t really water or feed mine. There are always some that bloom. However considering how many bulbs there actually were in the ground, obviously only a small fraction were blooming.
I moved them all over the place in my Dallas garden and there was only one place they failed - in the shade of a cedar tree.