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Moving/dividing grasses

1634 Racine1634 Racine Posts: 568
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Hi everyone.  I have a miscanthus that I want to transplant and divide.  Ideally I would wait until spring when new growth appears but I'm moving it into a plot with existing spring bulbs and so I don't want to be trampling them.

Has anybody got experience of transplanting grasses in autumn? 

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I did it once in autumn and they sulked dreadfully and not all grew back in spring.  I've done it in spring ever since.  It was a cold, wet garden in winter and the only grasses that reliably survived and thrived were the miscanthus and carex families as long as I moved them about in spring.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • 1634 Racine1634 Racine Posts: 568
    @Obelixx.  Thanks for the advice.  I have pretty much the same cold and wet situation too so I think I will wait for spring.  

    I too have all carex and miscanthus with the exception of a cheeky karl foerster.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Molinia "Transparent" coped with the cold and wet but, unfortunately, the wind blew over all those tall, graceful stems so that was a bust for different reasons.  Wasn't interested in just having a boring basal clump.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Not normally the case with most plants, but IMHO Grasses are best split and moved JUST as they start growing in Spring, rather than when dormant.
    Devon.
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