Gloria Purpurea Astilbes - Summer Check-in - July 2022
Last year, I planted a series of bareroot astilbes - Gloria purpurea - in our backyard around the base of one of the flowering pear trees. I stuck them there without much thought and early enough in the growing season that not everything *around* them had grown in just yet. At the time, it looks like I planted six bareroot plants . I was out in the garden recently and had a look at these. See below for a photo showing this little slice of the bed: By my count, I see THREE Astilbes that have made it. As I think back, I'm *pretty sure* that I recall that some of the bareroot starts were small, so I tucked more than one in the hole. Perhaps I doubled all of them up and ended up with just three? Whatever the case, I'm now seeing these crammed in amongst the tree trunk and a trio of hostas. Which, leads me to think I need to do something here: transplant these astilbes to a different location. They need a bit of room to spread out. But, where?...