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Sat, Jun 30, 12 at 12:47
| wanting to know how to devide this plant "successfully" have tried several times and just comes back bigger , it is almost 7ft. around,now and more plant than flowers, has not bloomed this year yet, still early for that, have dug up buckets full to no avail it is about 10yrs old,under a tree so fights for nutrients, but doesnt seem to bother it. also i think if it were devided it would bloom more? |
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| I'm not sure I understand your problem. Do you want to reduce the size? Then you must dig really deep, the smallest piece of root will send a new shoot. Do not plant it close to other plants, it will 'eat them alive'. |
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| When you dig the roots are broken & in essence multiplying the plant as you describe. If you want to remove it entirely you'll need to dig up the entire area, which with a tree might not be possible. Easiest to dig in early spring, right? You could try to coax more blooms with compost & water. Possibly the digging has disturbed it. They don't like disturbance & won't bloom. |
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