Well, I got the
confusa divided with a little difficulty. I only took off two small divisions; now I am rethinking that, and I may have another hack at it and take two more.
This plant is not in the best position; it gets a lot of tree root competition plus it gets hit with afternoon sun. The foliage on some of the (for lack of a better word) fans has fried. (The fan is a fan of leaves sitting atop a stem with many leaf segment/nodes, rather like a palm tree except the leaves are all in one plane, more or less, and point up.) I cut one of these stems back to the base, then chopped it up into three pieces to make stem cuttings; I'm going to see if I can get them going to make more plants. (I tried that earlier this year with a piece of underground rhizome from a
japonica and now I have a baby plant from that.)
While I had the fork out, I had another go at an old calla ('Acapulco Gold') which was left over in a spot in the side yard garden. I thought it had died and so I planted a third
Brunnera almost on top of it, but then in June up came the foliage.
I tried digging out the bulbs a couple of times with a hand trowel but no good - the foliage broke off, but no bulbs came up (too deep). This time I think I got the bulbs (foliage broke on one, but I got the bulb, and an intact bulb with stem and leaf on the other), so those got potted and the
Brunnera put back into place. Hopefully the potted bulbs grow but if not no big loss. More importantly to me, hopefully there is nothing calla-wise left in the ground, the
Brunnera will survive the operation(s) and grow (it was a small new plant to begin with this year and all the digging hasn't been good for it), and I am done messing with that spot and can tick that chore off the ever growing list.
(If you are wondering why that and not potting the bearded irises, that calla foliage has been grating on me every time I walk past that spot.
Since I had the fork out... As Gabe (I think it was) put it, "irises are like cockroaches"... they'll keep.)
