Bulb storage

Plant them asap. They will be late but then after they have grown you can store the bulbs for next year.

Lilies should not be dried out, corocisma can probably be left in the ground. The others can be lifted,dried and replanted next year.

dahlia's - set them off in seed trays and take cuttings then grow them on in 5" pots planted in a trench with the pots virtually touching. end of the yeah lift them cut off the top growth and store cool but frost free still in the pots and then next year just pot them up in a bigger pot and take your cuttings - they are what are called pot tubers ( not imaginative these dahlia growers) and it s how the commercial boys do it.

Glads you can still plant them now plant say ¼ of them a week over over the next 4 or 5 weeks and you'll get a succession of flowers. lift carefully and the small Bulbils that form can be grown on next year to form flowering bulls the following year. Again cool frost free and old pair of tights is good pop the first lot in tie a knot then the next & repeat ... I prefer stockings but thats just me

Begonia's start is a seed tray now somewhere light and warm then when they look established and are sprouting well pot up then move to a basket or tub out side. - Treat like a dahlia tuber
Lillies - depends on the sort I grow mine in big pots and just lie them on their sides each winter in the greenhouse and remove the top 4 or 5 inches of compost each year ... better I find than in the border as they like good drainages like I don't have
Crocosmia plant where you want them and forget ... just split them up every 3 or 4 years and replant with a bit of new compost forked into the soil, give the others away

Brilliant, thank you both, I'll crack on tomorrow x


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