The sprinker system repair guys were out yesterday, and wouldn't you know it, the main problem was IN my favorite flower bed. =0 Not only did they trample (and replace upside down) a beautiful begonia "Poponeii," break off a chunk of "Mona Lavendar" plectranthus and dig up a blooming Solomon's Seal, they annihilated the elephant ear bed!!
Both huge bulbs were sprouting above the mulch, and now? There's NO telling where they are in there......anyone think they'll resituate themselves & rebound?? I'm just sick......
At least I don't have to handwater anymore....
MKJ
Elephant Earschances for survival??!
Shouldn't be a problem. I've been trying to get rid of some elephant ears in a bed I re-arrranged, they keep coming up from little bits and pieces that were left, and from some that I simply plucked the sprouts from (down low, under the mulch, thinking that would be enough.)
How disheartening to have your bed trampled! At least it's still fairly early in the season, hopefully you can get everything righted in tiime for the plants to get settled before the heat is really on.
Oh, I hope my ears grow as obstinately as yours, MaggieMoo! We had cleared this entire back shade bed, for the express purposes of growing an ear "colony," and now? Geez.......I'll look for the sprouts.......=(
AT LEAST they didn't hurt the expensive variegated ear hybrids in there! I would've hurled..........
MKJ
It's like they're hurting your children, isn't it?
I need to get the siding on my back exterior wall replaced, a friend was checking it out, and stepped in the middle of my salvia bed to look closer. I almost had a heart attack! I couldn't tell that he had actually looked first, to step between two plants. He still stepped on a plant, but it was a cool-season annual on its way out (whew!) I pointed out that I had carefully created an 18" space between the wall and the back of the bed (so the soil from the bed wouldn't make contact with the siding, to allow for drainage, and so I can work on the bed from that side.) He smiled, and said when it comes time to replace the siding, don't count on the bed not being trampled. (Humph!)