Good morning Robert! I found your channel several weeks ago and am a devoted fan. I've learned more from you and your "messy" gardening than I have from anything else. What a load off my mind! I'm heading to my cabin and zone 5 woodland messy garden soon and I'll be implementing many tips I've learned from you. Too many favourite videos to list but I'll be dividing and transplanting perennials before June 1st despite black flies, checking for hellebore seedlings and mapping my sun shade areas.
You really simplify gardening processes and take away a lot of fear and confusion. It has encouraged me to try more propagating and dividing. Thanks for what you do!
i have an overgrown oriental poppy that i had for many yrs,im afraid to divide it cause i may do something wrong ,hopefully u have some info for me to save the beauty,i have a relative that will take the other half.....i have been watching some of your videos & i trust them all thats why im asking you for help
Does this work with woody perennials? I have several salvia greggii that grow and grow and grow until they randomly die back. There will be a dead Woody stem and further out there will be new growth.
Such "woody perennials" are actually subshrubs - same as shrubs except smaller. Dividing is always tricky and won't work with many of them. Take cuttings instead.
I always thought the reason why plants go bold on the middle was becouse roots (at the center) was to "compressed" or "crowded' and needs or was necessery do some devision or "decompression" of the roots. Am I wrong to think this way?
Most perennials do not get open in the middle. If it were lack of space we should expect most plants to do this. I think it is mostly due because some plants only make new growth on the outside, and the older growth in the middle dies. - but I could be wrong.
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Good morning Robert! I found your channel several weeks ago and am a devoted fan. I've learned more from you and your "messy" gardening than I have from anything else. What a load off my mind! I'm heading to my cabin and zone 5 woodland messy garden soon and I'll be implementing many tips I've learned from you. Too many favourite videos to list but I'll be dividing and transplanting perennials before June 1st despite black flies, checking for hellebore seedlings and mapping my sun shade areas.
You really simplify gardening processes and take away a lot of fear and confusion. It has encouraged me to try more propagating and dividing. Thanks for what you do!
I just found you as well. Pam from “Flower Patch Farmhouse” recommended you. Thanks Pam ! And thank you Robert!
i have an overgrown oriental poppy that i had for many yrs,im afraid to divide it cause i may do something wrong ,hopefully u have some info for me to save the beauty,i have a relative that will take the other half.....i have been watching some of your videos & i trust them all thats why im asking you for help
Just found you, thank you 😊
Thank you!💚🙃
Awesome
Does this work with woody perennials? I have several salvia greggii that grow and grow and grow until they randomly die back. There will be a dead Woody stem and further out there will be new growth.
Such "woody perennials" are actually subshrubs - same as shrubs except smaller. Dividing is always tricky and won't work with many of them. Take cuttings instead.
@@Gardenfundamentals1 I understand where you're coming from, the semantics get tricky so herbecious is a good clarifying adj.
The fourth reason to divide perinnials is because you want to spread the beauty around the yard.
I always thought the reason why plants go bold on the middle was becouse roots (at the center) was to "compressed" or "crowded' and needs or was necessery do some devision or "decompression" of the roots. Am I wrong to think this way?
Most perennials do not get open in the middle. If it were lack of space we should expect most plants to do this. I think it is mostly due because some plants only make new growth on the outside, and the older growth in the middle dies. - but I could be wrong.