Re: divisions

My model of when to divide/plant is based on climate. Plant just after the
most stressful season for that plant in that climate. This gives the plant
the longest opportunity to get in the best condition for the next stressful
season. I am in California and summer is definitely our stressful season.
Several years ago I received a shipments of Siberians in the middle of
August during a long stretch of 100+ weather. This was the height of the
stressful season and I lost quite a few even though I potted them and kept
them in the shade. If memory serves me correctly, the divisions were also on
the small side (matched the price). Our springs can be brutal as we have
experienced a week of 100+ the first week in May.


Harold Peters
Beautiful View Iris Garden
2048 Hickok Road
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
harold@directcon.net  www.beautiful-view-iris.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Margaret Boehm" <mmboehm@attglobal.net>
To: "sibrob" <sibrob@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 7:23 AM
Subject: [sibrob] divisions


> Boy did I learn a lot reading the "what are appropriate divisions"
> notes!  Thank you everyone.  It was especially interesting because I've
> dug and divided some this year that had been neglected for years and
> many were "stacked" like root sandwiches and I didn't know how to treat
> them.  My usual way of "dividing" is to do the pie wedge routine and let
> the sides move into the newly enriched soil.  What I take out is often a
> root sandwich mess, and always the little (I've never seen a "large"
> siberian rhizome, what constitutes "large?"), rhizomes are connected to
> each other.
>
> This fall one of the "pied" clumps appeared to be dying, or one half of
> it did and I chalked it up to the drought.  When I dug to see what I
> could save I discovered a large rock that was working its way up from
> who knows where was about 2" below the dying section.  I dug it out and
> enriched the soil and replanted what seemed viable and have crossed my
> fingers and hope I wasn't too late in the season.
>
> Someone in the "what are good commercial divisions" notes mentioned
> dividing in July.  Tracy DiSabato-Aust, the Well Tended Perennial Garden
> author (great book if you haven't seen it), says she divides siberians
> whenever it suits her!  I've been told, and have experienced, that
> spring is best in New England, but many of you clearly do it in summer
> or fall, even late fall.  So, in addition to what makes a good
> commercial division/shipment, I'd like to know WHEN is a good commercial
> division?
>
> And what does one do with the root "sandwiches"?
> Margaret Boehm
> Wilton, CT zone 6, first killing frost last night.
>
>
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