can you plant perennials now?

Its so mild and my beds are ready for the perennials i planned to put in , in the spring. Is it too early to plant them now , the ground is soft but am i getting ahead of myself , thoughts much appreciated please.

 

Its fine to plant perennials now raggy as long as the grounds not frozen.

 

It depends on what the perennials are raggy. Could you give us a list please?

 

Good evening Raggy and welcome to the site. You can plant anything now as long as the ground isn`t waterlogged or frozen.

 

planning on planting a very wide range basically working over 4 large beds so probably 70 plants that need to go in delphenium,aquilga,red hot poker,helenium,aster,rudbekia,salvia,phlox,lupins,campanula,eryngium,echinicia to name most...

 

As I`ve said, if the ground isn`t frozen or waterlogged then no problem.

 

Blimey, I should get going if I were you!

 

Depends how large they are.
Personally, I'll be waiting a while yet - the weather is predicted to take a cold turn over the next week.
Certainly too early for Salvia I would have said though.

 

Just a thought here .....
You're planning on planting 70 items ........ is this now or over the growing year ? ? Are these plugs or full sized pot grown items ? ? ?

If it's the latter they would hold their own as long as the predicted minus temperatures (minus 1 for this region) don't come along.
If they're plugs though leave it until late spring because they'll be much too young, pot them on perhaps and that's all.

 

welcome raggy

 

I'm not sure I'd plant anything now, as it won't be able to get its roots down before the freeze comes. I'm actually in the process of digging anything up that isn't tolerant of -10C - thats most of the garden actually :D