A bog salvia has just popped up. I was convinced it has succumbed over the winter but I hadn't bothered to empty the pot. But now it looks happy as Larry. Plants are funny animals.
Several salvia Amistad have survived and appeared in borders long after I thought they'd died, and my potted tarragon too has come back with a vengeance. The things I'm most frustrated with are several pelargoniums that I bought from Fibrex last year... the ones I had protected with fleece or put in the shed I assumed had died, so I chucked them (I needed the pots for bulbs), but the ones I left unattended have all appeared once the alliums that had been planted before the pellies had died back. Just wish I hadn't been so cavalier with the others...
This Spring I planted out a 'Rhododendron'. It was pathetic having languished in the 'to go in' station for three (?) years; definitely at least two. The few leaves that were left were completely yellow and vine weevil ravaged. It really was in a sorry state and I didn't hold out much hope, however I did the bonemeal and ericaceous thing to give it a chance. I genuinely thought I was wasting my time. T'other day I was walking past and noticed that I had a green, shiny, healthy plant that I didn't remember putting there. Guess who? Good old Percy Wiseman! Attaboy Perce!
I had a clematis in a half barrel with a rose. It keeled over but I didn't dig it up. I moved house and planted the rose in the ground and the following year the clematis re-appeared after snoozing for 3 years.
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It was pathetic having languished in the 'to go in' station for three (?) years; definitely at least two. The few leaves that were left were completely yellow and vine weevil ravaged. It really was in a sorry state and I didn't hold out much hope, however I did the bonemeal and ericaceous thing to give it a chance. I genuinely thought I was wasting my time.
T'other day I was walking past and noticed that I had a green, shiny, healthy plant that I didn't remember putting there. Guess who? Good old Percy Wiseman!
Attaboy Perce!
I moved house and planted the rose in the ground and the following year the clematis re-appeared after snoozing for 3 years.