How late can I transplant?

[seedcorn]

Mums and other perennials? Have 3 large plants that I will split up and transplant. We are spreading them around the church building. Another one is a flowering black eyed suzie. Any advice will be appreciated.

 

[Greenthumb18]

I'm sure you have some time to get them in, mums should bloom this fall.

 

[seedcorn]

Is it OK to divide and transplant mums now? Same w/black eyed susans? Any and all advice would be appreciated.

 

[lesa]

You can do whatever you want with black eyed susan's. I have transplanted, and moved them around, at anytime during the growing season. It is darn near impossible to kill them. I have thousands of them, that all started from a little clump that a friend shared with me, maybe 10 years ago....
Not sure on the mums, mine haven't grown large enough to worry about, yet.

 

[seedcorn]

thanks for the reply. Looked up mums on internet, said I was good so far.

Nice to know on the black eyed susans, as only have one plant, don't want to kill it. Did you just run spade through it or dig it up and apart?

 

[lesa]

If it is a good sized plant- just hack away. If it is still smallish, you might want to wait a year and let it multiply a little bit, on its own. You'll see new plants growing around it- those you can just dig up and move anytime.

I had a square foot garden, that had tons of them in it- I dug them "all " out and filled with new dirt. In no time at all, I had susans emerging, from 6 inches down!!!

If you can find anyone with shasta daisys they are the same way- I swear they multiply under the snow!!