dividing siberians
- Subject: [sibrob] dividing siberians
- From: M* B*
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 08:11:18 -0400
It was a gorgeous day here yesterday with enough of a breeze to keep the
nasty biting black flies away -- yes, they've hatched. I've had my best
luck in dividing siberians in the spring so set to work on some that
have looked a little peaked.
One was Lavender Bounty and as I dug I discovered that some rhizomes had
branched out above ground so that I ended up with massive branches, like
coral reefs, of rhizomes showing leaves much shorter than those solidly
in the ground and with no little white roots protruding. I replanted
and potted up only the rhizomes that had white roots clearly out or
coming and discarded the "bare" ones but wondered what the track record
would be I had planted them. Does anyone have experience with such?
Should I have replanted the "bare" ones which looked healthy just small?
I've had the plants work themselves higher and higher in the soil but
never have seen anything like this. Now I'm checking all my long in the
ground sibs to see if they need soil tucked in around the edges until I
can divide but so far no problem of that nature.
Margaret Boehm
Wilton, CT zone 6
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