Moving a bleeding heart
 

I'm very new at gardening. I started with a small patch in the front of my
house a couple of years ago. Last year I worked on starting my back garden.
Since then, I've realized I should have my bleeding heart where my coreopsis
is and vice versa. Neither does it's best where it is. My bleeding heart is
done blooming (I'm zone 5) and my coreopsis hasn't started yet (not enough
sun where it is). Can I swap these out now, or do I have to wait til
fall/early spring? I'd hate to miss the season for the coreopsis, but don't
want to hurt my bleeding heart.


--
LN in NH (zone 5)
....[they had] leisure to make beautiful things just for the fun of it... -
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien

Moving a bleeding heart
 

LN \remove NOSPAM\ said:

I'm very new at gardening. I started with a small patch in the front of my
house a couple of years ago. Last year I worked on starting my back garden.
Since then, I've realized I should have my bleeding heart where my coreopsis
is and vice versa. Neither does it's best where it is. My bleeding heart is
done blooming (I'm zone 5) and my coreopsis hasn't started yet (not enough
sun where it is). Can I swap these out now, or do I have to wait til
fall/early spring? I'd hate to miss the season for the coreopsis, but don't
want to hurt my bleeding heart.

Do you have a large enough pot to pot up the coreopsis? If so, I would suggest
you transplant the bleeding heart and pot up the coreopsis. Then, slowly adapt
the potted coreopsis to being in the sun (like hardening off tender bedding
plants in the spring).

I've moved volunteer coreopsis plants in the late spring and still had them
bloom, but only between areas with similar sun exposures. They also needed
to be watered or misted every afternoon for many days because some root
loss is unavoidable. Since you are also changing the sun exposure, your
plant would have a double handicap (thus I suggest potting it up).

--
Pat in Plymouth MI

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)

Moving a bleeding heart
 

I'm no expert on plants, but last year I moved my bleeding hearts out of the
garden into their own space (they were getting large). I dug them, wrecked
the roots in the process, and planted them where I wanted them. To my
surprise they sprang up this spring -- not as large as they were last year
but they'll do better next year.

I think I moved them after they bloomed and turned yellow, I cut them down
and dug 'em up. Must have been late summer when I did that.

I can't help w/the coreopsis :-(
LeeAnne

"LN (remove NOSPAM)" wrote in message
...
I'm very new at gardening. I started with a small patch in the front of my
house a couple of years ago. Last year I worked on starting my back
garden.
Since then, I've realized I should have my bleeding heart where my
coreopsis
is and vice versa. Neither does it's best where it is. My bleeding heart
is
done blooming (I'm zone 5) and my coreopsis hasn't started yet (not enough
sun where it is). Can I swap these out now, or do I have to wait til
fall/early spring? I'd hate to miss the season for the coreopsis, but
don't
want to hurt my bleeding heart.


--
LN in NH (zone 5)
...[they had] leisure to make beautiful things just for the fun of it... -
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien

Moving a bleeding heart
 

Thanks. I'm glad to hear it will survive. I will trim it down first so it
will be easier to dig up.

And, as to the coreopsis, I didn't think that would be the tricky one, but
will take the precautions that Pat mentioned.

Thanks to you both. Now I just have to wait for the weather to clear up.


--
LN in NH

"LeeAnne" wrote in message
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I'm no expert on plants, but last year I moved my bleeding hearts out of
the
garden into their own space (they were getting large). I dug them,
wrecked
the roots in the process, and planted them where I wanted them. To my
surprise they sprang up this spring -- not as large as they were last year
but they'll do better next year.

I think I moved them after they bloomed and turned yellow, I cut them down
and dug 'em up. Must have been late summer when I did that.

I can't help w/the coreopsis :-(
LeeAnne

"LN (remove NOSPAM)" wrote in message
...
I'm very new at gardening. I started with a small patch in the front of
my
house a couple of years ago. Last year I worked on starting my back
garden.
Since then, I've realized I should have my bleeding heart where my
coreopsis
is and vice versa. Neither does it's best where it is. My bleeding heart
is
done blooming (I'm zone 5) and my coreopsis hasn't started yet (not
enough
sun where it is). Can I swap these out now, or do I have to wait til
fall/early spring? I'd hate to miss the season for the coreopsis, but
don't
want to hurt my bleeding heart.


--
LN in NH (zone 5)
...[they had] leisure to make beautiful things just for the fun of
it... -
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien

Moving a bleeding heart
 

I'm very new at gardening. I started with a small patch in the front of my
house a couple of years ago. Last year I worked on starting my back
garden.
Since then, I've realized I should have my bleeding heart where my
coreopsis
is and vice versa. Neither does it's best where it is. My bleeding heart
is
done blooming (I'm zone 5) and my coreopsis hasn't started yet (not enough
sun where it is). Can I swap these out now, or do I have to wait til
fall/early spring? I'd hate to miss the season for the coreopsis, but
don't
want to hurt my bleeding heart.

Right now my bleeding heart is in a whiskey barrell where it's been for 3
seasons now. During the spring it is in full sun starting about 11am and
all the way into the evening -- by late spring, this becomes dappled shade.

This year has been a monumental year for the plant -- it's grown absolutely
huge. We'll be moving it to a shaded walkway alongside the house.

The way I intend to do this is to give it a little bit longer to start
withering at which point I'll pretty much transplant the entire barrell's
worth of soil & plant -- I'm just going to dig a hole in the new bed that is
the size of the barrell and fill it in. By rights this will be just about
late August, after the worst of the summer heat is over.

James

Moving a bleeding heart
 

G'day LN,
If I am not mistaken, both species are comparatively short lived and grow
easily from seed and cutting. Why not plant a new one of each beside the
existing ones and see what happens?
--
China
Wingham
NSW

Moving a bleeding heart
 

Dicentra spectabilis is very long-lived in the right climates - short -lived
mostly where the winters are too warm - they need a fairly long cool-cold
dormant season.
"China" wrote in message
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G'day LN,
If I am not mistaken, both species are comparatively short lived and grow
easily from seed and cutting. Why not plant a new one of each beside the
existing ones and see what happens?
--
China
Wingham
NSW