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Advice please

MJ56MJ56 Posts: 30
This year I have some Bacopa in a container and they are so pretty but already I am wondering what to do with them when they have finished blooming, will they reflower next year?

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  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    Hello MJ56. Bacopa are normally treated as annuals (even though they are perennials) as they are frost tender, and bought fresh every year for baskets. Nursing them through our Winters is not worth the effort but you can always give it a go.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    They can do if you put them in a frost free place over the winter, but it's not usually worth the bother as they tend to flower themselves to death and then go tatty.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • MJ56MJ56 Posts: 30
    Oh thanks for that Lizzie
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I prune them back. In a month or so you might get a new flush. Lobelia also.
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