Divide Perennials in Spring - Which ones and how
The roots of perennial plants live for several years. Herbaceous perennials such as daylilies die back to the ground every year. Deciduous, woody, perennials have branches and stems all winter but lose all their leaves. Evergreen perennials such as boxwood keep their stems and leaves during the winter. Perennials not only return year after year, giving our gardens reliable beauty, but they increase in size providing more backbone to our gardens with more stems and flowers. Perennials grow taller, larger and wider, taking up more room as the years go by. Spring is the ideal time to divide many of them. There are four reasons to go to the work of digging, dividing and replanting them, including: Some perennial clumps die out in the middle with age, others stop blooming and need to be rejuvenated, some get invasive weeds and grass in their roots, and others have grown too large for their location. In general, the perennials to divide in spring are those that bloom in the summer ...