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My mother "had" (held stewardship over is more accurate) a 200 year old Victorian "complex" in southern Alabama for a period of 15 years. They slowly restored the old girl to period inside and out, and fixed her leaks, and reverted her updating.. etc. The houses were located on approximately 2 acres that included a pecan orchard... again, with 200 year old trees. The trees were of six different varieties, and only produced nuts every other year, but they tasted so different from modern pecans to almost be different kind of nut. Everything about that place was old old old. That is where my Ipheion is from, and it is indeed bluer than anything modern I have seen, to include Wisley Blue. I have toyed with adding to it for years, by purchasing new varieties.. but I don't really want to do that because of the tendency to whiten and I don't know if that is a modern tendency or not.
I do have great success with them at the base of a sweetgum tree that sucks all nutrients away, so I concur with the "don't feed the babies too much" theory. *grin*
I had the same devolve into bulblets happen with two others in my landscape, the tuberose and gladiolas. I have planted both in various spots over the years, and since I have a tendency to "overplant" bulb areas... so there is always something going on, I periodically see a slender single leaf poking out.. and know that SOMEDAY those little baby bulblets will grow big enough to bloom. That is the hope anyway!
Welcome aboard Don!
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