garden transplantation experiments i inherited a lot of plants from the previous owners of my house and now i want to move them around. there's a lot of conflicting advice on the internet about when it's safe to transplant various plants and when it isn't so i'm just trying stuff and logging the results here. hostas hostas simply do not care. as long as the destination is suitable you can happily transplant them whenever you like with little risk of damaging the plants. peonies i love all the peonies in my yard but they're placed very haphazardly. there's conflicting advice on the internet about when it's safe to transplant them so i'm going to try a few things and report on the results. one consistent recommendation that i intend to follow is to wait until the plants have finished blooming before transplanting. i didn't have the time or energy to transplant my peonies in the spring so i have no problem following this rule. another more contentious suggestion i've seen is that you should wait until later in the year to transplant so the plants have a chance to store energy during the summer. this is the claim i want to test. this year all my peonies were done blooming in june so i'm moving one at the end of june, right at the start of summer then i'll move one in august, in the middle of summer and i'll move the last one in september, just before fall june 28, 2025 i moved the first peony from its previous home next to a fence. it turned out to be two plants so i kept them together and planted them both in a new bed in front of my garage.