So when is the best time to get perennials planted in the garden? Things like daylilies
dianthus, coneflowers, black-eyed susans. Well, here in North America, spring is typically
considered the best time to get planting in the garden. But let me go through each of the four
seasons and you can determine which is the best for you. So in the springtime, when the nights
are consistently above around 40 degrees Fahrenheit and the days are in the 50s and
the ground is no longer frozen, that is the best time to get planting into our spring gardens. Now
the benefit of planting in the spring is that you're going to be aided by the natural precipitation
that occurs in the springtime and that's going to help your roots to assimilate nicely into the
ground. Now you do want to make sure that you are definitely planting after that last freeze because
if you do have a late freeze that can trick your plants into going back into sort of a semi-dormancy
and they may just kind of hang around all spring and all summer not really growing much
due to that last frost that occurred out of the blue. Now the problem with it in the springtime
is that once the summer arrives the days are hot, you have lots of intense sun, you're definitely
going to be needing to bring your watering pail or your hose to your plants on a very regular basis
Overall I'd give planting in the spring like a six and a half or seven out of ten. We want to
typically avoid planting perennials in the summertime because the hot days and
the intense sun are going to provide a lot of stress on our baby plants and
it's going to be very difficult for them to get their roots established in the ground. Giving them water very regularly will be a challenge but if you do try to
do so make sure you give them a nice thick layer of mulch and that going to help to lock in moisture Just take note if they do get overly stressed out that can absolutely stunt their growth and you may not
see them really get established as quickly as you'd like. Overall I'd give planting in the summer
like a three out of ten. Now many professional gardeners would classify autumn as the absolute
best time to get our plants planted in the garden. The main problem with planting in the fall is
is that's not when the best plant selections are available at the garden centers and the box stores
unfortunately. However, planting in the fall, you have those cooling temperatures that increase
precipitation. All of that combined is going to allow your root systems to easily assimilate into
that soil, and that's going to require very little babying on your behalf in order to get those
plants situated in the ground nicely. That being said, you want to make sure you do so about six to
eight weeks before the first frost because once that first frost hits your plants will start to
enter into that dormancy. Now just a quick side note during the winter time plants are dormant
above the ground but underneath the soil they're typically still growing roots. That's why planting
in the fall you're going to be giving yourself a little bit of a jump start for the following spring
Overall I'd give planting in the fall a nine out of ten and typically winter is a great time to
plant shrubs and trees, but we want to stick away from planting our herbaceous perennials
plants that actually die back in the winter. We don't want to plant them in the winter. So we're
going to give winter a not available NA or zero out of ten. Anyways, I hope this quick video
helps you determine when the best time to plant perennials in your garden will be. Make sure you
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