Re: Digging and Planting
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- Subject: Re: Digging and Planting
- From: s*@aristotle.net (J. Michael, Celia or Ben Storey)
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 09:32:40 -0700 (MST)
>However, how many of you have had success with moving rhizomes (bearded) in
>the SPRING ? Knowing they may not bloom the first year - but how any of you
>have actually tried digging and replanting them in the _spring_ and succeeded
>in _saving_ the plants?
Larry, I've done this and saved the plants and they've bloomed nicely for
me the next spring. I don't know if that's because we have such a long
growing season in Arkansas that the replaced rhizomes were able to store up
enough energy for bloom the next season, or if the previous owner had been
dosing them with scads of Miracle-Gro or if I was working with a
particularly plucky TB. The plants I moved were unnamed TB, a purple-based
foliage plant with a smallish lavender self flower and lots of branching,
at least three flowers on each bloomstalk. I cleaned all the dirt off them
and dried them a little before re-setting them in my bed. They grew like
mad.
celia
storey@aristotle.net
Little Rock, Arkansas USDA Zone 7b
AIS Region 22
