# How to Replant Blackfoot Daisies
Blackfoot daisies grow in a low mound and provide a carpet of green foliage sprinkled with small white, daisy-like flowers. These plants grow well as a low maintenance ground cover in perennial beds. Replanting is necessary when you must move existing plants to a new bed due to a changing landscape design or because the old bed becomes overcrowded. Dig and replant the daisies in late spring or early summer after they begin to put out new growth. Early replanting ensures the daisies have time to reestablish in their new home during the warm summer months.
Things You'll Need
- Compost
- Trowel
Instructions
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Prepare the new bed prior to digging and replanting. Select a bed that receives full sunlight and drains well. Till a 1-inch layer of compost into the bed to add organic matter and aid in water drainage.
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Insert a trowel into the soil around the clump of daisies to a depth of 8 to 10 inches. Space cuts about 6 inches from the base of the clump. Make a circle around the plant with the trowel then slide the trowel beneath the clump and lift it out of the bed.
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Dig the new planting hole to the same depth as the daisy's roots and make the hole twice as wide.
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Set the daisy plant into the hole and adjust the depth until the plant is at the same depth it was growing before. Fill in around the roots with soil and lightly tamp it in place with your palms.
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Water the newly replanted daisies thoroughly so the soil is moistened throughout the root zone. Initial wilting may occur in the first week after replanting, but the daisies will resume new growth once they establish in their new bed.
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