Dividing Perennials to Get Tons of Free Plants! 🌿🤑🙌 // Garden Answer

Warning, very long post ahead! I started watching your channel in 2020. My husband had just passed away (April) and I was watching YouTube and Facebook videos to just get mindless. Your videos were ‘recommended’ and I just decided to watch one. In that video you mentioned that you lived in Ontario Oregon. That peaked my curiosity because I grew up in Ontario California. I was hooked immediately by your natural demeanor and kindness to your audience. So, after watching the one video, I went back as far as I could, and begin watching every video you had put out. It just gave me a lot of peace. No drama just great content. I love watching home improvement videos anyway so watching garden improvement videos were right up my alley. In August of that same year I went back to California to visit my family, I now live in Tennessee, and have lived away from California since I was married in 1976. I found out that my family was interested in moving to Idaho. So they took a quick trip to Idaho and came back and said we love it and we are going to move there. My sister all her adult children and one of her adult grandsons along with all their families, moved to Idaho within a couple of months. My parents moved there also and lived with my sister and her husband. Sadly they passed away at the end of 2020. Both within 13 days of each other. I immediately told my family about your channel and told them they needed to watch you to know how to take care of their gardens. They all love to grow flowers, plants and vegetables. My niece and her husband ended up in Payette right near the border of Oregon, and Idaho. She started watching your videos and visiting your parent’s garden center and just loves it. On one of my visits there I also visited your parents garden center. It was great looking at everything I had seen on YouTube for two years and now seeing everything in person was amazing. I met a very sweet employee, and we had a great conversation and I told them how I had accidentally ran across your videos on YouTube and then Lo and behold my family all moved from California to Idaho and are benefiting from your videos. It’s been four years this month that I lost my amazing husband and so much has changed but I wanted to say thank you for being a part of my grief healing. Sounds crazy I know but it was such a blessing to watch your family grow and your garden grow too. God used a garden channel to help me through long lonely days. Now my life is normal and completely peaceful and busy….. But I’m completely hooked on Garden Answer!! Thanks again for just doing what you love and sharing it with us! You made a difference where you never thought you would!

"That's the best thing about gardening. Just being out here doing it." Truer words have never been spoken.

Laura, I assume you really understand how encouraging and helpful yours and Aaron's videos are, but I just needed to say thankyou once again for everything.

I have an old bread knife I use for dividing that cuts through crowns like nothing! Take a clump of daylilies and turn them in to dozens!! Any perennial poking their head up, gets lifted, divided by at least a third, a little shot of organic fertilizer in the hole, and then planted back, and then I have more plants to put elsewhere, or share with the neighbor!

Seeing dirt all over you made me happy! You just beamed! Kinda feel digging dividing just gardening is your jam ! Your joy is infectious!! Great info 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

PSA PSA PSA… get the rings on the peony while you still can. GET THE RINGS. ON. THE. PEONY 🤣🤣

One of our older neighbors offered us free perennials for helping them divide theirs and weed their garden. A few other neighbors heard about our help and offered us the same deal! We now have lovely bearded white and purple iris throughout our garden and it was all for free!

The other thing to do with dividing plants is to share and trade with friends to add diversity to your garden without spending more money

Next best thing to planting more plants is planting more FREE plants. Love it. Can’t wait to see the play set go in. Your kids will love it. One thing I would suggest you do is prepare now for putting up shade sails at least until trees get bigger for shade. We put a set in for our grandkids and they love it. They will spend hours playing on it except when it is real hot. I live in high desert also. A shade sail or 2 angled just right will extend their playtime well into the hottest part of the summer and it will be more comfortable for the grownups that are watching the kids. Love all your videos.

I love plant math. Dividing plants. FREE! Yes yes

I LOVE starting my day with your garden! May I suggest a tip with editing (and before everyone jumps on me, this is NOT in any way a criticism). When you are making cuts and things, I know speeding up the video can sometimes be necessary, but I notice the sped-up scenes recently are "extra" fast. More than your previous videos. Kind of hard to see what your doing. Honestly, what you may find mundane to watch, a ton of us enjoy! 😊 Much love to you and your family! ❤

Laura, you’re always so sweet too worry about us not being able to hear you, but my experience has been that I’ve never had a problem hearing you even when you think your mic is turned off. I think you must have really good recording equipment!

Beautiful attention to detail & explaining how to divide perennials. Master class from Laura, so enjoyable & as always, Laura's enthusiasm is contagious. Spring is here!

Those allium rootballs really showed the change from native soil to current on top. What a change!

After a quiet Winter, I am absolutely LOVING all of your Spring projects. And I can see that you are too.😀

I love to watch you do your garden jobs in fast motion, but I would also love to watch what you do in regular speed. Watching someone dig or plant is so relaxing and satisfying. So much of the videos are fast, fast, fast that I find myself being disappointed when the job is over so fast. That being said, this is still my favorite gardening channel.

Good morning all have a safe and blessed day ❤️

Good morning Garden Answer friends!

It's so valuable to see exactly how to divide different types of plants, so it's greatly appreciated how much detail you show us, and how close up the camera is. Thank you!

I am so happy for Benjamin and Samantha Grace to have a play center! Not that they don't have an exciting playground in your whole yard, but something that is just for them. Thank you for showing us how to divide perennials again, great reminder, and free plants!