"andrewpreece" wrote in message
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: I have bitten the bullet and dived into the overgrown corners of my garden
: and started turfing out the spanish bluebells, where I also found clumps
of
: Crocosmia which were very congested and hardly flowering at all. After
: digging up the clumps I find that the oldest ones have 17 corms stacked
one
: on top of the other. Presuming these are laid down annually that's 17
: summers without clumps being touched! No wonder they didn't flower well.
:
: The books recommend no more than three years betwen dividing clumps.
: I've knocked off the excess corms and replanted but I imagine that I'll
not
: get a display this year, it being rather late to do this kind of thing.
:
: Andy.

Replanted them !!!! Some of us spend time trying to get rid of them and you
replant them lol. Only joking, well partly anyway, they get everywhere and
won't stay put