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When to plant out perennial plug plants
Hi everyone, I'm doing a new border March time and think I'm going to go with jparkers plug perennials as getting 100+ plants and it's cost efficient is mid-end of March a okay time to be planting them out I think jparkers already harden them off I would assume so as nothing says otherwise I got loads from them all wee mighty plugs last year some came up good a 3cm black knight hollyhock grew to a 8ft masterpiece but alot not so good I planted them late Feb/March last year think the cold/frost might have got them, when is the best time to plant Eremurus? I was going to dig up my daffs late March/april and replace with eremurus and giant alliums? Thanks guys & gals. Sam
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I wouldn't plant out any plug plants - even the biggest kind - till late spring/early summer at least. I'd have potted them on before that too, so that they were in 3 or 4 inch pots. Too many losses otherwise.
Is there a reason why you're lifting the daffs to put in alliums etc? You can plant allium bulbs in and around the daffs.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I wouldn't plant them till the autumn. The plugs jparkers supply are very very small. It would take a full summer for them to develop sufficient root systems to survive a winter. Eremurus need a base of grit 2-3 inches deep and planted very shallow to produce flowers. Even then they take a year to establish properly. If you get them now, you'll have to give them very good protection. You're better off buying bigger 2ltr perennials and splitting them. J Parker's don't have a good reputation when supplying plug plants anyway. Bulbs and shrubs maybe but not plugs.
I wouldn't choose eremurus if it's another thing to dig up every year.
In the sticks near Peterborough