Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Any plans to remove any established plants this Fall?, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Been meaning to answer to this Post--but it seems to be too long--when I get started...

OH, yes! I will be digging up a few things and moving them to other locations--or giving them away.
Where do i begin?????

Peonies----BTW--they like to be dug up and moved in late August.....Pippi--I am SOOO sorry you threw yours away!
They seem to be the same as my oldest Peony in my garden. BIG, white blooms with tinges of deep pink here and there...
Oh, well--spilled milk...................

The ones I have that are doing poorly are the deep, deep pink ones. I LOVE those!
I have 3 small clumps--and one old one--that are NOT growing or blooming at all--as they are in the wrong places.
Hasty decisions to plant them there years ago. Had to put them somewhere!!!

Well--two of them are right under my dripping gutters in the back of my house--and are rotting out.
The third one is in a small bed near my Maple--too much shade and no blooms ever---lots of
competition from the Maple tree and the roots of the shrubs right next to the.
The 4th one IS in my YUK bed---By now it does not bloom any more----it is all choked out by tree roots...
All 4 of these will go! Since I have nowhere else to put them--I will be dogging them up and taking them to work.
When I say "digging"--it will be more like a day's work with sweat and tears to even get down to their roots.

In my YUK bed--there has been a clump of "Chrysanthemum Pacificum" for years...
Honestly! This plant will grow anywhere! However--It seems that it is now sitting on top of a lg. clump of some kind of
Daffodils--small, clustered, and fragrant. They are definitely defeating each other. Just in different seasons...

SO! I have already taken cuttings to root of the Chr. Pac. and will plant them where I dig up the one Peony.
I would like to dig up the whole C.P. plant as well, from where it is--but I don't think that can be accomplished
w/o digging up everything there-eg the Daffs as well. IF I can even dig deep enough to move them!
I really do not care!!!! I can always re-plant the daffs.

I really do not care about a lot of stuff in my garden by now! Nothing is doing as well as it should.
Everything is getting old--including me! Everything struggles to some extent as it does not have soil free of
tree-roots to grow in. It is sooo frustrating!!! Me? Just thinking about the work involved keeps me from doing it.

NEXT!!!!
My very small bed on my kitchen side--that I planted those amazing Orienpet Lilies and the other ones I so loved
when i went to Latvia---neither of which are no longer blooming all that well. Some not at all.
This bed is on the East side--but gets amazing AM light until 3PM.

SO! I have some crowded clumps of Frans Hals and some other D-Lilies on my sunny W. side bed.
They all need to be dug up and divided. Guess who will be happy about that????? My manager, Donn....

Opening up this area--will be a good place to transplant the Orienpet and "other" Lilies to.
I think they will thrive there...NO tree roots--and full sun. More digging!
What I will put in the now open mini-bed on the east side--I have not decided yet....There is a Peony there---
the oldest one--with the big, white blooms tinged in deep pink.
It is a VERY small bed and smack against my house's foundation. Only 2' deep and 4' long....
right next to a HUGE Azalea bush too. No matter where--it is always an issue with roots--and more roots....

Granted--this summer has been a scorcher. NOTHING has done well here! Everything had problems...
Yesterday's T-Storm and 1/2 hr. of hale beat up so many things....My Brugs look all tattered--
There are leaves from my trees all over everything....It was like a flood!
All this takes away a lot of gardening get-up-and-go!!!

Here is what my back lawn looked like yesterday!