Bulbs: Simple Pleasure: Narcissus pseudonarcissus., 1 by Toxicodendron

Toxicodendron wrote:
Robert, if you ever get another mertensia, just let it go to seed and soon you will have lots of babies. For years, I deadheaded mine and then one year I did not get around to it and hundreds of volunteers appeared all over the place. (I now deadhead again, just did it yesterday in fact).
They naturalize along slow-moving rivers around our area, and that is where I got my original plant. They are so beautiful and bloom when the bleeding hearts, celandine poppies, and woodland phlox do. I have one that is still not deadheaded, so if you want I can try to save some seed for you. Let me know real soon, so they don't scatter all over the place, LOL.
As for Amsonia...I have seen pictures and admired the plant, but don't have it. Does it bloom for a good while?
And Agapanthus...I have a bigger type that survives, but has not bloomed except twice in 5 years. The Peter Pan smaller one was in a pot with flower buds on it when I bought it last year and it bloomed really well for such a small plant. But it may never bloom again either. They supposedly require being rootbound to bloom, but I wonder if it is our shorter growing season that is causing the lack of blooms.