Friday, 18 September 2009

Primroses split and replanted


The primroses which I potted up last year have grown and were becoming rather congested. The first pic above shows how they looked in March, the second pic shows how they were at the beginning of this week.

I split them and have replanted them in the front garden. I will be repotting some of the primroses I sowed in May (see below how they look now) into the now vacant pots.

One thing I learned while splitting the primroses is that it's better to split them by hand - I originally tried splitting them with a spade, but on a couple of occasions I only succeeded in separating the top of the plant from its roots.


In the pic above the pots nearest the camera contain foxgloves.