Pacific Northwest Gardening: Help with trilliums and hardy orchids. Please!, 1 by

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Oh, Julie, Julie, Julie.... my pedestal crumbleth... I have killed more plants than you have ever yet planted in your young life. If I ever stop learning, just kill me quickly and put me in the soil, please.

One that I have tried to grow for years and that has simply struggled along for me with a bloom here and there is Nelly Moser. I am so hopeful it is a soil issue.
Here is one that does well, but I cannot remember its name. I have to move it because it is on the wrong side of the shed and does not get enough sun. It always Stttrreeetttcches around to reach the front of the shed, causing me pain. When I dig it up, I will surely have a division of it if you want it. It's an old cultivar, which I got from my neighbor across the street. I'm sure I would know the name if I saw it. Likely one of the Kates knows it.

Clematis are also easy to divide, even if you don't dig them up. When they start growing in the spring, just use a good bread knife and saw down into the root between the growing buds... you get the picture. Then you only disturb the part of the plant you want to dig. Your mom will never know! Shhh!