I went back and found the photos of my Prairie Blue Eyes on the day it arrived here on March 19, 2015. You can see the two little clusters in the top right.
So after looking at how crowded the clump had become after only one year, I decided to go ahead and dig it up and separate the clump.
Here is a photo of the clump I dug up out of the bog.
Here it is will all the muck washed off.
Here are the divisions
3 divisions with seven fans each.
2 divisionis with six fans each.
1 division with 4 fans.
Another view of the clumps.
Normally I would divide the plant then immediately set it back in the same hole and let it continue on its happy way. But, there were two things with this division that will prevent me from doing that. One is that the fans were so closely grown together there was just no way I could pull them apart without doing some damage. Shown in photos below.
The other reason being those open wounds would be susceptible to rot even in normal soil, and as you can see when I returned to retrieve my spading fork, this is what I found.
So I will put some cornstarch on the wounds, let the plants dry out a day or so, then find a new home somewhere else till the bog hole drains. Rain expected tomorrow!
