How to plant Perennials (bare roots) - FarmerGracy.co.uk 

Great idea - We’ll think about that! 😀

@@farmer-gracy actually maybe better to leave it longer depending on how quickly it grows LOL

What a wonderful Idea, I would like to see two parts, one they are ready to be potted up and when they are ready to go directly to the ground. I got my first bare roots and the package box have no instructions just the name is the different species I got in every plastic bag...

What bare root plants you got planted? I plant for the first time last late spring and early autum herbaceous salvia in a very soil prepared and mixed with chicken well rotted compost and sand, in my zone 9b and people said me they will die back at the end of season and will don't came back again because they were sensitive to frost. So I left them go to seed and complete their life cycle and their were planted between indian summer rudbeckias. I let some grases grow and chicken weed above the soil all the winter to early spring over my plants that I won't cutted back, just clip some spent flowers when they were completely dormant and dark brown color late winter. Now by the first week of may y cut back all the grasses and chikenweed to the grown levels because I got new growth from all my herbaceous salvia (salvia misty, salvia interespecific, white salvia, salvia farinacea) and all my cappuccino rudbeckias and grey eyes rudbeckias) so I cut back all the old growth, spent sticks from last season to the ground level, and let just the new growth. The grasses and chikenweed had protected my bare roots from heavy frost and the sand mixed with mulching in my soil protected the root system from rot, because my soil is heavy clay and became waterlogged every where. So this way works for me, in fact I already have a few rudbeckias flowers forming by now, and 2 capuchino flowers already opened. The only plant that looks like that was FELICIA, this one are completely burnt and sand colour, but they aren't easy to pull, so I have some hope. And in their crown are some cotiledon from the overwinter direct sown of their own seed that I did early winter just in case...