You can use your shovel or another sharp tool to divide them. Make sure you get roots and stems on each new section. Replant one of the sections where you dug up the original, and plant the others in your garden as soon as you can.
If you bought plants locally or have seedlings that are ready to go, wait until after the danger of frost has passed in the spring to plant them outside. In most regions, the candy tuft plant grows best in full sun. It will bloom at its best when it gets lots of sunlight and may get leggy with too much shade. If you are growing in USDA zone 8, plants will do better with partial shade.
Giving them morning sun and shade during the afternoon is ideal. A hardy plant, candytuft adapts to many different soil types, but it will do poorly with wet feet.
Planting it in well-drained soil is probably the most important step to having healthy plants. Avoid heavy clay soil or low areas that collect a lot of water. Full sun and well-drained soil will go a long way for your candytuft plants. They are used to the dry, gravelly soil of the Mediterranean and hate getting their feet wet, so try to avoid planting them in heavy clay.
To plant candy tuft as a groundcover, space individual plants only 6 inches apart. Otherwise, space them at least 12 inches apart.
The plants will slowly fill in the space between one another over time. Candytuft is very easy to care for. The biggest maintenance task will probably be weeding around your plants during the spring and summer. Fertilizing candy tuft is optional. If you do choose to fertilize, the best option is to apply a slow release fertilizer in the spring. Use one that is higher in phosphorus and lower in nitrogen to promote flowering.
Pruning is also optional, but many gardeners choose to cut candytuft back after its first bloom period in the spring. You can cut plants back by as much as half to stimulate new growth and possibly encourage them to bloom again. Cutting your candytuft back is optional, but it will most likely cause your plants to bloom again later in the summer. Pruning also stimulates new growth and vigor. However, if you live in zones 4 or 5, mulching plants over the winter will help them to fare better.
Fortunately, candytuft is mostly pest- and disease-free. Even bigger pests like deer and rabbits tend to avoid this plant, and insects rarely bother it.
The most common disease problem for candytuft is fungal pathogens that cause things like downy mildew or root rot. Candytuft hold its name from the amazing blooming that renews itself from spring to fall. Caring for it is easy and the ornamental properties of this plant make it perfect as ground cover.
Planting iberis or candytuft is best done either in spring or fall. When it has grown leggy and woody, the plant has trouble taking off again if you prune it back to old wood all at once. Candytuft, or Iberis, is very similar to lavender in this respect. There are four options that you can try to return a leggy, woody candytuft to blooming in a nice, dense shape :.
Whichever technique you prefer, be sure to prune your candytuft regularly afterwards! This plant is called evergreen Iberis Iberis sempervirens because it bears cute evergreen leafage all year round. This is a ground cover plant that makes it possible to cover any given ground surface throughout all of the seasons.
Its average hardiness means that candytuft requires certain temperatures during the blooming and it also fears freezing. Best choose a sheltered spot to grow it. This plant will be particularly appealing along the edges of a flower bed, in a garden box, and also in rocky ground and atop a dirt mound. Our friends the bees are big fans of this plant.
Some gardeners in cold regions gently place pine boughs over the plants in late fall to shelter them from the cold, drying winds of winter and to keep them green longer. The natural environment for candytuft tends to have drier air conditions.
For that reason, it is not recommended for areas with high humidity such as the southeastern United States as the flowers tend to wilt.
Fertilizing candytuft is not necessary but can help ensure abundant blooms. A slow-release fertilizer will help candytuft grow if applied in early spring. Choose a low-nitrogen, high-phosphorous mix for best results. The name "candytuft" probably conjures images of tufts of candy. However, the name actually originates from the word "Candia," an early name for the island of Crete, which was the source of the first plants imported to Europe.
The Latin genus name indicates the plant harkens from Spain and the Iberian peninsula Iberia , while the second part of the name, sempervirens , indicates that the plant has evergreen foliage—the term is derived from the Latin words for "always" and "alive. To keep candytuft looking tidy, you can prune away the top one-third of the foliage after blooming—this will keep them from getting leggy.
However, if you are planting candytuft flowers behind a retaining wall , legginess may actually be a good quality. In this case, prune them only if you think the stems are getting too woody-looking. Pruning will spawn new, fresh growth. If propagating from cutting, select a green, healthy stem that is a bit long or tall. While the stem will self-root, it does take a while. Be patient if you use this method.
Propagating can also be done through root division in the fall right before candytufts begin their winter dormancy. One large plant can be divided into two to three new plants and stems and roots are included in each clump. Candytufts are deer-resistant perennials and are also rabbit-proof. In fact, this plant is mainly free of pests and most disease problems, although root rot can be an issue if they are planted in boggy soil.
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