Re: Lots of questions...need help re lilies & peonies especially...

Bonnie,

Whenever I've moved peonies, I just pull the grass and weeds with their
roots out of the chunk of peonie I've dug.  I've never been able to get the
whole rood ball of an established peonie in one piece; they're just too big
to dig out.  So-o-o I just make little ones out of the big ones, clean them
up as far as foreign plant matter goes, and plant them.  So far ain't had a
failure; they're really tough.  Rich in Z-5 where it was 61 today and will
be 75 tomorrow.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 6:43 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Lots of questions...need help re lilies & peonies
especially...


> Thanks, Ceres!  I'll be back over there in about 2 weeks and will take a
> good shovel with me and large pots for the transfer.  Any idea how to
> extricate the weeds and grasses without harming the peonies?
>
> I'm hedging my bets on the daffodils.  I'm cutting a nice bouquet and
> leaving the rest to whatever comes.  (I couldn't believe how many came up
> this year!  But they do look so lovely in a mass!)
>
> Blessings,
> Bonnie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf
> Of Cersgarden@aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 8:54 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Lots of questions...need help re lilies & peonies
> especially...
>
> Bonnie, if you were purchasing a new peony you would be planting in the
> spring so I can't believe you will harm the plant however it may have
affect
> on
> this years bloom.  What do you have to lose?  How nice to have a keepsake
> from
> your mothers garden.
>     I have way to many daffs to worry about covering them.  What will be,
> will be.
>         Ceres
>
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