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made a decision to use all the seeds and bulbs i have saved before i buy any new ones this year...so far have planted ... red onions miniature violas aquilegias nasturtiums cornflowers alliums have also divided and planted ice plant fuchsias choc

I grew  Lamium and  Ajuga in pots last year and I would like to propagate them. All the books seem to say that if they grow in the ground they produce their own offsets and therefore they should be divided. As they are in containers can I take

Snowdrops transplant well when they are in leaf and even in flower and the bulbs can also be divided at the same time - a method known as 'in the green'. You can then replant new clumps of snowdrops in other places around the garden; it's a simple

  they grew fast and flopped.but they are better staked. Time to split the plant? Good advice already given but I would divide the plant in spring as well. Take a spade to it and chop it in four - disgarding the inner section of each quarter - then replant

I would like to divide and move a large curry plant. Is this a good time to do it If it is the plant I am thinking of it is  a shrub- you cannot divide a shrub. You can take cuttings- they root like lavender fairly easily-and if you move it now

obelixx. Goldilock I was sure I posted amessage         Just been out and taken off leaves but its turned so so cold. Although they sulk a bit after being divided, the best time to do it is just after flowering. I have a lot of self sown Lenten Roses

are formed of segments (e.g. prickly pears, Christmas cacti), always remove whole segments as cuttings – don’t split segments in half.Succulents that form clumps, such as aloes, haworthias and agaves, should be divided by simply taking the plant out of its

Cottage, North Devon.The first episode covered January and February. Carol showed how to lift and divide snowdrops in her woodland garden, then demonstrated a rarely seen propagation technique called twin scaling. This technique is much used

successfully. The advice I would give is to divide them in late spring, dont plant them too deeply as they like heat about there feet Wait until they've finished flowering, then dig them up. Discard the oldest pieces and then plant where you want them, making

I have dug up and divided a huge clump of iris bulbs which didn't flower this year.  I plan to replant them, but what do I do with the bulblets?  Will they develop into full sized bulbs?  If so, do I leave them attached to the 'parent' or separate