Dividing Perennials - 🪴🍂🌼

Fall is a great time to divide perennials to create more plants and to maintain the health of the plants. In today's video I'm dividing liriope, rudbeckia, and phlox - all super-easy to do. Come see!

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[hdab]

At first I thought, "oh Jenny, liriope is so hardy just cut it up." Then I realized how much care you put into teaching, and you were going through all the ways that job could be done. In the end, I agree with your way to divide, that's how I've done mine. Having said that, thanks for the inspiration to go out and divide my kniphofia which I had put off until fall.
We're not done yet in Maryland!!

[mayarada]

You’ve done such a great job, exactly what I am going to do in my garden before heavy winter drop soon here in UK, see later

[teresakelley-waite]

great informative video! Just one suggestion; if using the shovel to divide leave the plant in the ground to divide. I found it much easier to do it in the ground as opposed to digging the whole plant out and then trying to use the shovel to divide.

[kathrynmettelka]

It is always a hoot to get free plants. My trick for efficient or lazy gardeners came to me by accident. I had dug up some daylilies and could not separate them before I had to dash to an appointment. I stuck them in my wagon with some water. When I returned they came apart easily. Just what my arthritic fingers neded.

[janeta]

oh my gosh that was so easy. My daughter is always dividing plants but I never saw her do it. thank you for demonstrating that

[beatriceanderson]

Hi Jenny!!! You are the hardest working gardener on YouTube!!! I enjoy watching your videos!!! 😊💖🦋🌸🐝🎃👍👋

[Edu_Kate]

You must have been a teacher in a former life. You explain things so well.

My favorite garden tool is my rechargeable reciprocating saw. I had to get one after watching a MN gardener use hers to divide Siberian iris.
Yesterday, I finally got the last of my plant stash in the ground!!! Three 'Bloomstruck' hydrangeas I was dreading planting because I had to eradicate a mat of creeping bellflower first and amend my sandy soil. I ran across massive tree roots (probably from the maple I had cut down earlier) and the saw made short work of removing enough so I could plop in the plant unobstructed for future growth. I hope I don't get too many new creeping bellflower next year, especially growing in the center of my gorgeous hydrangeas.
I divided a daylily and potted six to share with whomever saw them at my curb. I still have more, but it's so late in the season and one clump has been dug up since June. That's destined for the compost. (I don't really like daylilies.)

[jasminelouisefarrall]

Grand job Jenny 💕 been doing the same here and finally my garden is filling up nicely 🥰

[colsen]

Great tutorial! I cut back a couple large hostas and trimmed up a yucca last weekend and they could definitely benefit from dividing. Happy to have lots of hostas; they’ll be easy to find spots for. I’m not a huge fan of yucca, though. It’s currently thriving in a shade bed🤷🏻‍♀️and is such an unexpected color and texture there. I’ll play around with placing the pups and see if I like that better than as a lone specimen. You’ve accomplished so much in your front border this season! It’s beautiful.

[judymckerrow]

Those plants are thinking what in the heck did we ever do to you!🌺💚🙃

[GinaCriv]

Hey Jenny. Good job on the liriope...like the way you have them sprinkled throughout instead of lined up. Gonna go outside and see what I can divide up. Cheers

[mardisteffenhagen]

This is really interesting ....I was planting a new Yarrow out of a large pot and it kind of showed where it could be divided. I think I will do that next fall . Thank You 🥰

[joannawatson]

Loved this! But I'm secretly thankful you didn't divide astilbe or I would have had to immediatly go out and do mine. You're my fav!

[willaerley]

Good job! You should do a video on plants like hydrangea and forsythia which can root in very easily by just placing a rock on a low lying branch. Lamium is probably the easiest at this.

[lizrose]

Would you consider dividing a Gaura…got my first one this year…still blooming in zone 6b. Great job…no fear!