There was a time when the bi - yearly partitioning of perennials eat most of a gardeners time in early outflow , but that was at a time when one either start out perennials from seed ( I still do with some ) , or obtain choice varieties from a limited telephone number of nurseries . This was a time before the net , before mega - nursery , before eBay . But some perennials are still difficult to track down , and so it is with many of the more beautiful genus Helenium selections . Helenium is all - American , with most metal money aboriginal to the easterly one-half of North America . A pick perennial hoarded by those ‘ who know ’ and shunned by others who detest it , until they see one in bloom . It ’s one of those plants which I continually am asked to share , once visitor see it in efflorescence . Three or four foot magniloquent ( unless you choose to thin it back early in the summer so that it will branch ) , genus Helenium over - performs , and that ’s something which I never complain about as a nurseryman .
No fancy cock are require , but a sharp knife will be handy . I just keep an quondam steak tongue out in the greenhouse just for such tasks , but helenium are easy enough to divide that all you will need is a pitch forking or digger , and your hands . I first like to use the hose to move out an much of the soil as possible , a stumble I memorise from a hosta breeder , who once record us how to propagate ( divide ) an expensive hosta – one of those that cost $ 150 . Just the sort of plant that you would want to divide into single crowns , with just a single bud to a each division . There is no indigence to be this frugal with genus Helenium , but if you feel that you might take 182 division , feel free to go for it ! I only require about 15 - 30 of each change to appease my vision of massive drifts of color .
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