Perennials are best divided in the spring and fall when the weather is cooler. Spring-blooming perennials should be divided in the fall. Late-summer and fall-blooming perennials should be divided in ...

A wise gardener once said, “Beginners worry about making plants grow. Experienced gardeners know the real trick is keeping them under control.” While gardeners love to commiserate about how many ...

Herbaceous perennials fill borders with flowers, form, and textures, and can do so for many years. To keep them performing at their best season after season, you should divide them every few years – ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... What’s the one spring garden chore that costs you nothing, and yet earns you free plants? If you answered dividing perennials, then give yourself a nice pat ...

In a week we will set our clocks forward one hour. This, along with warmer weather and the simple thought that it is March, will make the gardener in us get impatient to get things planted. Nurseries ...

If you have perennials in your garden, those plants are likely to need division at some point. To divide a perennial, you dig up the plant and split the root mass into pieces to make multiple plants.