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Dave, your garden is coming along nicely! Giving up on Geums--not buying any more...yours are so happy! How would you describe the soil where they thrive? Thanks.

Yes, it looks like a sedge or rush...certainly not an ipheon, and that's ALL it's ever going to do unless there's a bulb hidden deep inside.

Thanks, After I uploaded the photo the leaves looked too thin. When I re=potted the plants last Fall I saw one or two bulbs. I probably over watered them. I will leave the plants intact until the Fall and if I find any bulbs I will re-plant in a new pot with appropriate soil and keep them drier.

Have had mine for several years, but never got seedlings. How fortunate to get seedlings that are exactly like the mother plant.

I planted 3 last year and despite a mild Winter, it has not come back....not holding out much hope at this point!

I had one in a hosta bed, shady and damp, and it bloomed reliably, but didn't have enough room to spread out. Eventually I gave it to a gardener with more shade room. I liked it, but I don't like how the flowers never really open.

What a beautiful specimen! I moved mine from dry shade to a more moist area and it's growing bigger!

I gave the botanical name in my reply after yours aseedisapromise up the page.

Thanks!

Yep, my garden gets a quick toss of compost (at most) and the pots get a sprinkling of Osmacote 6months slow release. I fear that a well-fed |Rozanne would take over the neighbourhood.

Rozanne is a twiner. it makes a small mound and then sends out loose, long, non rooting flowering stems. It looks best, IMO, if allowed to twine into surrounding plantings--perennials or shrubs. It is not a large, mounding plant, nor does it, like G. 'Dilys', make a solid groundcover with its stems. Rozanne is a great, great plant and distinctive in its growth habit. But if you're wanting a big mounder, Rozanne isn't it.

I do have roses in this photo around Persephanie. I prefer annuals around the out side and middle perimeters because I always have constant bloom and color. begonias are in the inner circle and ageratum on the outer most. Persephanie has a solar powered spotlights on her after dark.

I'm wanting to keep my box woods small and sphere shaped.

I also harvest the leaves to add to my compost pile. A plant was sold to me as bluebells and sadly I shared the same at a swap where someone fortunately correctly identified it so others knew what they were getting. I moved mine under a large fir tree where little else survives. It has spread nicely there and the flowers are attractive. When others ask for a piece I warn them that it spread aggressively in good garden soil. Had to keep digging out little bits for a couple of years from the original site. Think I got it all as don't see any there yet this spring.

Thanks for the help! It does indeed seem to be comfrey. Now to decide whether to keep it or not....

Individual plants aren't long-lived but had to stop using it. Found I was never without more and more of it (seeding).

I think self I may have gotten quite a bit of self seeding, looking at my garden; I wasn't very diligent with deadheading in the past. It must just be a bit behind the rest of my plants, because everything that looks like its probably c.montana is only little clumps of leaves at this point.

The mulch looks like it's adjacent to stems/foliage? If so, I'd move it back a bit from each plant. Maybe you got a batch that had a lot of walnut tree in it? If a plant suddenly collapses, I might also wonder about roots being eaten or severed from under the ground. Any signs of moles/voles/chipmunks?

looks like bacterial wilt. if the soil was wet when you put the mulch down, could have provided the right conditions for it. excavate a little bit and see if the stems look rotted. soil pathogens are always there and sometimes we give them the conditions they like. damn shame though.