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Help with moving perennials
"FayeC" wrote in message ... Hi, I am moving on August 15th (have access to the plants until September 1st) and after having invested a lot of time, energy and TLC on my garden I am not about to leave all my perennial behind..... I planted most of the perennials from seed and only had one flowering season after 3 summers from most of them. That's why I am thinking of taking some mature plants with me so I can enjoy their flowers next year instead of growing them from seed all over again. The thing is.....I never transplanted any perennial before. At least not my own I mean so I have no clue of what to do to ensure both the root ball that is staying and the one that is going live through it. I would appreciate your help in learning the right way to transplant these plants and also if this is the best time for them or not. Some are in full bloom right now..... The plants I am talking about are Coreopsis (pink), Galliardia, Agastache, Cupid's Dart, Lupin, Blue Flax, Clove, Evening Primrose and Snow in the summer. There are a couple more but I don't remember their names as I got the seeds from a friend and she didn't mark the packages. I would like to leave some of the plants behind if possible as the garden is very pretty as it is and I would like to leave some of it to grow next summer. On the other hand if splitting the root system will cause the plant to die then I rather take it all instead. Thank you in advance for any help you can give me. I appreciate any tip, link, personal experience you can send me. FayeC -- Well, Faye, I've said it before, and to respond in kind to you..........I lived in Nashville, Tennessee. I had some mature perennials. (zone 6a at the time). I moved to Eastern Tennessee, to RENTAL property, (the house in Nashville was mine). I moved my WHOLE YARD IN LATE JULY. I watered very well three days in a row, then proceeded to hysterically dig up every perennial I came across, including clumps of bulbs that were doing at the time and sliding the clumps of perennials into plastic grocery bags with the handles. The larger plants were put into some larger pots, one huge Helianthus was placed in a garbage can, along with some other larger plants. It was July 30th. It was also around 98o F at the time.........and dry that year. I dug up HUNDREDS of perennials. I even dug up the area I was sure was the bleeding hearts but they'd died down and I kept a 5 gallon bucket of soil until they emerged the next spring reassuring me that's what they were.....watering before I dug them well helped a lot. I understand the attachments to these plants grown from seed. They've acclimated to your enviroment and yard. Lupines in the late summer?? Wow. I'd say try that, and let us know your success rates. You'll do fine. madgardener Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect." Chief Seattle |
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