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December 6 and 14, 2003
Hooker's Fairy Bells This was from a small division. It was a huge shrub last year (for a fairy bell). Very dense twiggy growth a foot & a half high. 
The full clump.
Western Wake Robin These guys were grown from seed gathered 6 years ago. They only just bloomed last year. I guess I should have used some fertilizer. They were grown in 1 gallon pots divided into quarters with makeshift inserts and last year I moved some up to gallons. At least 1/3 of them died of neglect over that long time. 
This is the biggest one. Notice how the roots are all curled up at the bottom
and the rest of the pot is mostly empty soil.
Giant Wake Robin Ah, this is the favorite. I thought it would eventually spread by rhizomes but like the others, it just makes a big dense clump. The leaves push each other out, they are so crowded. 
Giant Wake Robin
Fat Solomon's Seal This is the tall fragrant Smilacina. I didn't get pictures of the S. stellata but those are very different, spreading widely sometimes travelling up to 12 inches without putting up a shoot. 
The S. racemosa here formed a ring of shoots
and came apart without any indication that they were even attached.
PS I used a hose to clean these all off. It was very gentle and easy to do.
It doesn't seem like I damaged the roots at all. None went down or out very far
in our clay soil. Some required careful shaking & tugging to untangle the roots.
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Divided up.
Detail.
These are some of the smallest ones. 6 years?!
These are medium and "large" sized. The scale is 6-inches.
The swollen bulb part is as big as a peanut on the largest ones and less than 1/4 that size
for the smallest.
I retained half the clump (right and below) to replant in the same place
and divided the other half. They snapped cleanly off with a bit of wiggling and
didn't even require a knife to cut.
This clump isn't quite as big so I divided it up into roughly equal parts.
A triple clump on the left and a tiny one in the middle.
