I have moved Digitalis in the spring, but I'm sure you can move it in early fall too. They are pretty easy to transplant. I grew Digitalis purpurea (the popular biennial) from seed this year and even moved around some of the seedlings this summer, because they were getting overwhelmed by adjacent plants. We had such a rainy cool summer and they did fine. I've got some enormous clumps out there almost 2 feet across! The transplants are smaller, admittedly they will take a hit in growth if you transplant. But yours should be fine for next year. Just make sure you keep them well-watered, especially the first week or so, if we have dry weather. Mine are in partial shade, I've read they will grow in shade but I would give them some sun for better blooms. They prefer rich, well-drained soil on the moist side.

Don't have wood betony, but have experience with big betony. Just (couple of days ago) chopped up a big betony, replanted a bit and potted up the rest to overwinter outside. Had no problem doing this previously. Don't know if wood betony is equally hardy here.

I'd say you should get it out of the ground in the spring, before it breaks dormancy. In a pot for the winter you run the risk of it dehydrating, or getting its roots frozen and killed. Good luck! I think they'll survive being moved no problem.

Thats just crap. If I was attempting to establish a meadow or prairie on an acreage or planting grasses for forage, I'd order PLS of a local genotype and rent a seeding machine. As it is, the marketed grasses selected for form, color and ornamental features such as resistance to flopping, is a better choice for a city landscape IMO. I want to keep the place looking neat. well planned and visually attractive. This is a challenge to do when working on a pocket prairie on an inner urban small yard. Its very easy to end up with a wild looking, overgrown mess that will bring the neighborhood down on a persons head with fines. As far as ecological factors go, my little area (an urban yard mind you) isn't much of a drop in the ocean in the bigger picture so I refuse to feel guilty or inferior on the Native Plant Scale of Purity no matter how often that needs to be heard. The yard in question is water-wise, requires no fertilizers running downhill into the stream down in the park like the rest of the block nor does it contribute to environmental pollution due to gas powered lawnmowers like most yards around here do. If I planted the local genotype switchgrass from seed collected as opposed to ones like 'Northwind' or 'Heavy Metal' which can only be grown from division and do not come true from seed, I'd have clumps that are gigantic by now. I love seeing them on the side of the road but unfortunately I do not have the space. The Blue Grama marketed under the name 'Blonde Ambition' was a chance discovery as many grasses being marketed are. It wasn't discovered right here in Oklahoma but its still native grass and so are the big and little bluestem grasses I'm growing. I bought some of these plants as opposed to seed, possibly to my discredit. The bluestem grass sold by nursery's under the commercial name 'Blaze' is one and the same as the Aldous variety which is also sold as PLS seed. Originally seed for this named type was collected in The Flint Hills of Kansas and was released by the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station in 1966. Personally I have no problem with that. Similarly I have no problem with the two grass varieties I purchased that were tested developed and marketed by the Los Lunas Plant Materials Center and I find their efforts admirable in both cases. We have discussed this viewpoint before. I really cannot see the sense in being a slave to the idea of planting only local genotypes from collected seed born out of some kind of self imposed discipline in the quest for purity. It seems utterly ridiculous to stubbornly attempt that considering the reality is, the landscape I create is not natural by any stretch of the imagination even if it was all grown from seed sowed by myself. Making this idea seem even more ludicrous, the Trugreen truck was parked right across the street yesterday spraying the neighbor's lawn like they do every year and there was some other truck up the street doing the same along with everyones sprinklers going full blast to keep the lawn grass green here since we have been dry for a month now. BTW, Karl Forester is a non native grass. In any event, I seriously doubt it is being replicated 'everywhere' to the point of making it a bad idea ecologically speaking, even if it is popular and agreeably overused in landscaping when natives would be more refreshing to see. On that note, Miscanthus bothers me a lot more than KF.