You know when you thought you had dug up all the Dahlia tubers from last year?
I dug them up, dried them off and carefully stored them in a frost free place keeping them ‘just moist’ so they wouldn’t dry out, checked every week and carefully brought them back into growth on the heated bench in the greenhouse in April. 
These were the ‘Bishop’s Children’ dahlias grown from seed and much admired in the front ‘hot’ border. 
After lifting them I dug over the border between the perennials, added compost and left everything to nature which then kindly provided three very cold months with frequent heavy and prolonged frosts. 
And yet…….up they have come again! The couple of tubers I missed, left in the open ground all winter with no added protection and probably speared with the border fork!
Sometimes I think we try too hard and underestimate a plant’s ability to survive. Of course, I don’t know how many other tubers were left and didn’t!
Davids Garden Diary 
Beautiful flowers. It’s a good post to read; it tells me not to be too paranoid and try to save all bulbs. Thanks for sharing it.
I think we should still try to lift and store them if for no other reason than the expense. I just bought some ‘Twynings After Eight’ tubers at £2.99 each so I wouldn’t want to lose them but Mother Nature always has ways of surprising us and reminding us that, in the end, she is in charge.