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Old 25-07-2016, 03:23 PM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden
Moe DeLoughan Moe DeLoughan is offline
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Default Transplanting Flowers

On 7/21/2016 7:07 AM, songbird wrote:
wrote:

I know now is not the time to be moving flowers, but it is move them or they will be crushed under a backhoe. Just two types, peonies (already finished blooming) and cone flowers (still in bloom).

What are the chances they will survive a mid-July transplant?



peonies:

remove most of the foliage other than one or
two of the youngest leaves and mulch it to hold
in moisture, but don't smother it so it rots.


And no more than an inch of soil over the stem buds or they won't bloom.