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Flower identification and is it dying?
Blenkiron
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In a nutshell, bought my first home, decent size garden and I've found my self enjoying gardening which I never thought would happen!
Im obviously new to gardening and looking after flowers etc, but I feel as though these are dying... I'm not sure what type they are, the pots theyre in didn't have drainage holes so last night I put a few holes in each one. How do these looK?
two parter, I've also got a raspberry plant in a pot which I know was over watered, again ive put more drainage holes in, I've plucked off the dead leaves and stems, what else should I do to rescue them if they start dying?
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I don't know what the flowers are but the leaves look perfectly healthy to me. There are new flower buds forming so I think they just need dead-heading - by which I mean snip off the flowers that are going brown and the petals drooping and new ones should form. The flowers may not be quite so abundant as they have been, but I don't think it's dying. Hopefully me replying will bump your question back up to the top and someone will be able to tell you what it is and therefore what to do next.
Raspberries come in two sorts, summer fruiting which will have stopped producing fruit by now and autumn fruiting which will have flower buds at least now. Both sorts are quite greedy so grown in a pot will need feeding (they are generally better grown in open ground if you have room). If you don't know which type you have it's hard to advise what you should do next, but it is quite hard to kill a raspberry.
Have you had any fruit from it?
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