Laziness Pays Offf

I have several Gaura (I think the common name is Whirling Butterflies) that I enjoy all summer long.  They reseeded lightly in the garden, including quite a few in the Hell Strip.  The Hell Strip is a bit too narrow to support the Gaura and I decided to try and move them.  Since they reseeded many of these were close to other plants I wanted to keep so I knew I'd be challenged to get a big enough root ball but I tried.

Sure enough almost immediately after i transplanted them the top growth died off on all of them.

Damn.

I was lazy and left them alone.

I decided to leave them where they were so any seeds would drop into the area I wanted new plants.

Good thing I was lazy patient.  In the garden this week is new green shoots popping up from the roots. 

I just hope they survive the New England Winter.