Dividing the Rudbeckia
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A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that my Rudbeckia had been poor this year, producing very few flowers compared with previous years. This is it in late August. Hardly impressive.
| Rudbeckia fulgida “Goldsturm” |
This plant had been in the same container for three years, and I felt sure that the reason for its poor performance was that it had not only run out of nutrients, but also had become pot-bound – in other words the container had become clogged with a mass of roots. Perennials like this do need to be dug up, divided and re-planted every so often, so that’s what I decided to do today.
I tipped the container out onto my trusty groundsheet (one of my most useful bits of gardening equipment!), and immediately my suspicions were confirmed:
| A solid mass of roots! |
Nevertheless, there was a lot of good planting material too.
There were perhaps 30 little plantlets – almost like a whole series of rooted cuttings.
So I chose a few of the best ones, and planted them back in the original container, but with fresh compost.
There were loads of good plants and I was loath to chuck them away, so I also put some into 6-inch pots.
Six, in fact.
Even the less-good ones were not discarded. I stuck them into a little vacant patch in the shrub border (no photo).
So what do you reckon? Do you think I’ll have good Rudbeckias next year?
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