First of all, Shirley. No, not throwing them away! Just leaving them where they are. Actually they bloomed this year, but was away at the time and didn't see them.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam