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Dividing herbaceous perennials in the fall is an easy way to create new plants for your garden.

A herbaceous perennial overwinters as a fleshy underground mass that can be cut into smaller pieces to grow new plants.

To divide a plant, dig it up, clean off the soil, and use a sharp tool to cut the mass into sections, ensuring each has an eye.

The fall garden brings a multitude of projects and tasks, some quite satisfying and others just things to get done. But one of those projects can make tremendous contributions to next year’s garden — dividing your herbaceous perennials. Perennial division is easy street to new (free?) plants for the garden. It can also be an essential part of keeping a prized plant healthy and vigorous.

First — a little plant terminology. A per

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