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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.

A couple more...

closer

Some type of ground cover? Next pic is closer up

I have answered this latest selection on your duplicate post. Have you put up a different picture of the top one or is it a closer view of the same plant? If the latter I would but a tentative? on my id of oregano. I can't gauge the scale. Does it smell when crushed?

I've heard you have to divide them every yr. I have 3 but they are sort of mixed in with other plants in a messy way!

Maybe other varieties would not do this?

I have silver mound artemesia that I planted last year. It's come back great this spring, but one is already starting to flop and wilt in the centre. Temps here are not hot yet. Should I give it a haircut or just cut out the 2 wilted branches in the centre? I thought it was too early for it to be doing this and wondered if it might have some other problem that's just beginning to show. Any help so appreciated.

Virginia bluebells get dug up for spring sales here. When I transplanted mine they wilted and disappeared a week or so later but returned this spring. I'm hoping the tiny seedlings I see in that area are more bluebells. Will have to let them grow a bit to tell.

Thank you all. My Mother's Day present was having the day to play in the garden. It was pouring rain, so I took advantage and moved quite a few V. Bluebell seedlings. There are still tons more that could be moved. Does anyone know how many years it takes before the seedlings bloom? I suspect they are like Trillium and take a number of years to mature to blooming stage.

Martha

Rouge, that is a single clump of it. There are others. The largest measures about 3' wide, possibly more. It was much larger, but we took many multi-eyed divisions this year.

3' wide! How old is that clump?

My guess is Peltoboykinia tellimoides ...

CMK

peltoboykinia

christin, that's it! I recall the name now...the data banks aren't what they used to be!

note in cats pix ... how the daylight is different in each pic ... leaning more toward the diffuse dusk light i was talking about ... but for that one pic of the chard ... [cloudy days are good also]

i usually grab my camera .. digital ... and go tour the yard... an hour after dinner or so ... 7 to 8 oclock ... as i have found ... that the light at that time is extremely forgiving ... dawn also ...

when the sun is high in the sky ... forget about it ...

ken

My smart phone's a Motorola MotoG, its camera has addicted me!

I got the sundrops from a get together few years ago. Ok, I will keep digging. Thanks.

If it was well behave, I will keep it. I think it will make a nice ground cover.

Hmmm, the same thing almost happened to my Cobham Gold, I managed to save a few outer bits and having it up and growing again, we had a very mild winter but wet. I'm scratching my head over it because all the rest of the shastas are doing just fine.
I love shastas for that punch of white and... they all don't stink. 'Summer Snowball' one of my favs...

Annette

Shasta daisies have always been short-lived for me although I haven't this trouble with other perennials. But, I like them, and so replant every few years.