Why is everyone suddenly calling me Zulu?
Phillip, I would hesitate to use cornmeal anywhere in my garden because it would act as a pre-emergent and wipe out all of the wildflowers that would be coming up in the next few months.
Sherry, in most cases I'm looking at the only rhizome that's left. That's why I said the blooms this year were the last gasp. I'm now wondering whether I was wrong to blame the gophers. Could the rhizomes have been nibbled by those earwigs and sow bugs? I've often heard that they eat only decayed plant tissue, but tell that to my poor clematises and hostas, which regularly provide feasts for the sow bugs and earwigs unless I stay extra watchful in spring and surround the clematises and hostas with traps. They're more voracious than the snails in my garden.
