Lorn, Some of the culls are just given away. Many are culled by events beyond my control.
►There were a couple of years that the lilies were just shredded by hailstorms.
►Then there's the moles and voles (pretty well under control now due to the neighborhood population of feral cats).
► Then there's the feral cats. They use the lily gardens as a giant litter box. They can dig surprisingly large holes and can damage quite a bit in the process.
►Then there's the squirrels. I keep live trapping and removing them, but it seems like someone is bringing them back. They are amazingly fast diggers and shredder of lily bulbs.
►Then there's the large local rabbit population. Have that under control using vinyl coated chicken wire fencing around all the lilies. Had a couple get past the fence this last summer and it took a while to get them out. They hide very well between the lily pots.
►Then there's just me trying to get too much done, and I've sometimes gotten rid of things I really wanted to keep around.
Lorn, It is a huge task. The large number of new seedlings makes up for the losses. My thought is that my best lilies are alive in the seeds that I have not yet sown. The ones in the past live on in the photos.
