A time for division

It's time to add to the plant stock by dividing up healthy growing perennials. An example in this garden is Nepeta racemose 'Walker's Low'. Since we moved in it has certainly been long flowering (a beautiful blue/deep purple colour) and more upright than most Nepetas. It has been a joy and we want more of it. It has been a struggle to find any in local garden centres to supplement the stock of plants so division is the best and certainly cheapest option.

By digging up each plant and dividing each I was able to gain 12 new plants and probably saved myself around £50 to £60. I have used the new plants alongside the lower end of the main pathway that divides the garden. At the far end I have further divided plants, this time Nepeta Six Hills Giant, an old favourite of ours. Come Summer the pathway will be awash with the deep purple blue of Nepeta and humming from the sound of bees.

I also managed to divide some quite large Crocosmia which I planted last Summer adding numbers and the drift effect I am after. And I purchased some Sisyrinchium striatum and was able to create more plants by dividing each straight out of the pot. In most cases each pot yielded three decent plants. 3 for the price of 1, a pretty good deal I'd say!