How early can I move and replant spring bulbs?
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Moving Spring bulbs-in Spring? Yikes!
Comments (7)Personally I like to move them when the tops are beginning to brown. At that point I can easily find them, I just move them like any leafy perennials. I just immediately replanting them wherever I want them to go..... unless it's a tulip. These I prefer to dig up, dry off, and replant in the fall. But just to be clear, the best method for nearly all spring bloomers is to wait till they die back, dig up, dry the bulbs, store dry during the summer and replant in early fall.... (it's just the other method fits into my own schedule better). -unless of course it's a specific bulb that doesn't like to dry off completely. Snowdrops and winter aconite come to mind....See MoreSpring bulbs pulled up too early - can they be saved
Comments (2)Do not cut off the leaves. Grape Hyacinths will be the hardiest of the bulbs you dug up so you might want to split them now, but put them back in the ground now and add some bone meal to each hole. Here is a link that might be useful: Propagating Perennials...See MoreMoving in Spring - What to do w/Bulbs
Comments (8)I used to be a RE agent--in my experience, it is best to specify on the flyer that this or that bulbs/plants are going with you, but you are leaving many/most of the rest. Take your treasures & leave the common stuff--most people can't tell the common from the rare anyway. Also,you can say you will be dividing clumps, if applicable--so you each get some. A lot of plants are better off divided every few years anyway. It is much easier to dig them when they are blooming, so do so. It's still your house until it closes. Just let the buyers know you what you will be taking--and that you will replace it with something similar, if you think it will matter to them. Gardeners will understand you right away, and non gardeners will understand about sentimental value ("I planted that bush when my daughter was born"), but will not care about which varieties are which. Just don't leave the yard full of holes. If you do make gaps, fill them in with annuals....See Morefall bulbs - can I plant in ealry spring
Comments (2)Four days before Christmas..and still, if you can get the tulips (cant speak for the daffs) into the ground, then that's the best place for them. They may not come to anything....this year ('06)...may produce just foliage. In that case, let them go through the same cycle as other tulips, let them wither on the vine....and they should recover to give you much flowering in '07. For the daffs....I'd venture.....get them also into the ground. Even if they don't come to anything, they will be able to be moved after they yellow up and should show well in '07. A heavy mulch over the site is I think valuable. You could just find a place ---away from your garden...and dump the whole lot of them into a ditch. Let them come up and then decide where you wish to move them to. (of course, plant them properly....I used the word 'dump' to mean to go whole hog and put them all in the one place. Imagine them all coming up..in flower..what a sight that would be....See Moreterrene
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