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Restio
I put a restio into a bed last year, bought and planted fairly early spring. A year later it looks sort of okay, but still really floppy/limp, not the nice upright grass/bamboo like plants we bought and nothing like the examples in larger pots we saw.
It's getting enough sun, i'm sure of that.
the soil is very sandy, but mixed with at least 50% organic matter comprising farmyard+own compost+leaf mold. The plant is close to a stone wall so should be drier than middle of the bed, plus not as cold in winter, i believe.
Other plants growing very well in same bed, same soil mix include Jap Maple, Rhubarb, Bamboo, Paulonia, heather, Geranium, Blood Grass, Vinca, Jap Anenome.
does anyone have experience of young Restios and i think what i'm asking is, should I pot it up in a new soil, or best left and assume it will pickup this year/next year?
It's getting enough sun, i'm sure of that.
the soil is very sandy, but mixed with at least 50% organic matter comprising farmyard+own compost+leaf mold. The plant is close to a stone wall so should be drier than middle of the bed, plus not as cold in winter, i believe.
Other plants growing very well in same bed, same soil mix include Jap Maple, Rhubarb, Bamboo, Paulonia, heather, Geranium, Blood Grass, Vinca, Jap Anenome.
does anyone have experience of young Restios and i think what i'm asking is, should I pot it up in a new soil, or best left and assume it will pickup this year/next year?
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Have a read of this - https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/239328/Restio-paniculatus/Details
More important though, I should have said the plant looked pretty sad all last year. i'm convinced the problem wasn't a cold snap...albeit that might be a problem in the future!
....last time we pickup something of this nature at the Harrogate Spring flower show!!
I bought a couple of restios in 2016, rhodocoma capensis. They flopped and sulked for the first year and I considered getting rid but then read that young plants are a bit limp and grow into an upright habit after a couple of years. Last year my two really perked up and are standing upright again.
I’m really no expert though!