hi Garden writer George Michael here today we're going to take a look at how to divide perennials which are the plants to come back year after year if you have a plump that's creeping where you don't want or they're just getting too crowded or maybe dying out in the center what you need to do is just dig up the whole clump or taking a section off the edge like I'm doing here with this variety plant once you have it dug up roots and all some plants tear apart easily they come apart just by pulling them other ones if they're tight and fibrous you might need to use an axe to lacan apart but don't worry you won't kill the plant or anything just get fifth eyes pieces and then you can move on to replan them somewhere else that's what I'm going to do with these b-bomb here this is a case where this patches crept you farm so you can just take the corner off by digging in this case hand trowel is enough to do it just pull apart the roots if you have to or again use that axe to separate the plaintiff you have to then I'm gonna just transplant this right near by a couple feet away you have a brand new plant good way to extend the grouping of perennials free plants basically or the other thing you can do is if you really don't need to plant more in your own garden you can give them away to somebody else one way to do that is take the clumps you get those fifth size pieces and pot them up you can give them away in that form just don't divide when plants are in bloom or they'll flop when you're done like this that's what they look like when you're all done make sure and keep the plant well one okay all summer long happy dividing