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| Moving established clumps of bulbs. |
I dug a few clumps of
Hyacinthoides hispanica and a clump of daffodils from the lawn at the Vancouver place and planted at the Battleground place. They are big enough to readily identify them, and small enough that they are not too floppy to move. I take a big soil mass so as not to disturb them too much. I did this last year and the bulbs that I moved grew and bloomed without missing a beat, and are growing again this year.
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| Transplanted and Established Bulbs |
Deer and rabbits eat all of the tulips and all of the muscari. The seem to leave daffodils alone, for the most part. They also seem to leave the
Hyacinthoides alone. There might be an animal digging up some of the
Hyacinthoides bulbs. Or a mole that pushed them out of the ground by accident. But most of them seem intact.
Moving big clusters of bulbs, the result looks like they have been growing in place for a while. Planting individual bulbs in the fall, they look less robust, and take a few years to make nice clumps.
