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Martin Brown wrote:

I have an area with bulbs etc. in, and everything is doing adequately
or better, except the aconites. There are usually plenty of seedlings
but the number of mature (hence flowering) corms is gradually dropping.
This isn't actually under trees, but doesn't get all that much sun
until May, and they aren't mown until they die down.

What do they like that anemones, snowdrops, crocus, daffodils,
bluebells and Puschkinia don't mind not having?

I don't know, but I would hazard a guess that they might prefer a damper
in summer heavier soil than you can offer them in Cambridge.
I suspect drying out in summer is what they really don't like.

That's very plausible. While they do well on the Backs, my soil
is rather sandier than it is there (as well as considerably higher
above the water table).

On the bright side, the anemones went bananas within a year or two :-)
Yes, an actual carpet of them from something like 25 corms.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.