Bulbs: Protecting Bulbs from Hungry Critters, 0 by DonnaMack

DonnaMack wrote:
I wish I knew what it was. It is one of the few plants that was here when I moved in. The people who lived here were not interested in ornamental gardening, so the front bed was filled with purple coneflowers (gone) and had three thorny suckering Crimson pygmy barberries. Other than the azalea, which they could not identify for me, that was it (and it's all gone).

Two years ago at this time, March 20, it was actually in bloom (1st picture).

The second picture shows the flowers, actually a bit past best bloom, on April 30.

It grew by 50% over the year because they never did anything for it. But like my usual anal self I looked up what it liked and acidified the soil with Ironite, used acid based fertilizer and pine bark mulch, and put a soaker hose around its feet so I could water it regularly.

Ha! I have to prune it after bloom this year. It's gotten too big!