(upbeat music) >>When dividing and transplanting your perennials, a key time is to do this in early spring.

You wanna separate and divide and spread out all of those various types of flowers that you love, put 'em in different locations in your garden to add color throughout the season.

So one of the things that I do here is I have my bed, which I've prepped.

I just have some 10-10-10 and some compost here.

You can use both or either or as you add it to your soil to just amend your soil.

And by enriching the soil, it'll help that plant just transition, boost that growth.

So in this bed, I had some daffodils, but I also know that my canna lilies are going to overshadow those daffodils.

So I had to dig them up.

So I'm just gonna simply put them in the pot for right now and then move them into another location in the garden.

But this is the area that I'm going to plant my canna, canna lilies, and I have this nice clunk of lilies here.

This whole section has to get moved.

So over here, I've already dug these up.

I have these beautiful rhizomes, and typically I'll have to separate them.

I can pull them apart with my hands, or I can use a fork and pry them apart.

That's big.

Oh, there we go.

Separate those just like so.

And you have this beautiful, healthy system right here with the root system.

So what I'll do is I can separate this big clunk even to a smaller section.

But what I'm gonna do is dig down in here and just place it anywhere between one to two to two to three inches below the soil.

Put that in.

Have another one here.

This has a longer neck to it, but what I'm gonna do with that later is just snip that neck off.

Let me put that here.

Again, make sure I spread out the roots.

And I know this plant is gonna grow really big and these roots are going to multiply, but I like the big clusters that the canna lilies provide.

And once I do that, I'm going to cover that up.

And the key thing is I have to make sure that I water this in consistently 'cause you want them to not die from the shock or the stress.

I encourage you to try some of these tips, get out into your garden.

Look at those areas where you find that flowers are starting to cluster up.

See the new growth, lift them up and divide them and transplant them in other locations in your garden.

Happy gardening.