touchofsky said:I know, I should have. However, there was a very nice young man learning to dig that day, and I hated to get him in trouble.
If the rest of your plants were in fine shape, and this one plant was "only" a double fan plus these pieces, I wouldn't complain about it.
Trim the fan back as Sue suggested, since pieces like this will tend to re-grow from the crown, often via the split in the existing fan. I plant "projects" like these in a good potting soil mixed 50/50 with perlite, and site them in bright, open shade, keeping them just moist.