lemon verbena rooted cutting

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• fidgetbones Posts: 17,618

  September 2018

  A windowsill. It won't survive a heavy frost. It may lose its leaves, but don't give up too soon. they often come into leaf very late in the season.
  

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• staffsmags Posts: 230

  September 2018

  thanks, fidgetbones.  fingers crossed!  Mags
  

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• Rubytoo Posts: 1,630

  September 2018

  Is it the shrubby plant with little lilac flowers? (Aloysia citrodora)
  I put ours in a unheated blow away. Also left the odd one out against a sheltered wall.
  But we are in the South, I didn't know they were that tender, I would go with fidgetbones if it is still soft, but find once woody and shrubby they do pretty well. I think the smaller plants I have lost have been down to combination of cold and having wet compost, more than the cold.
  We have a very old one been in the same pot for around twenty years, poor thing I hardly give it a second thought in the cold, it even came through beast from the east.
  As fidgetbones said they leaf up late.
  

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• AuntyRach Posts: 5,291

  September 2018 edited September 2018

  I bring mine indoors over Winter, on a windowsill in an un-heated spot. It will lose its leaves (and look dead) but it should survive. It will need a little watering - probably weekly (I sometimes forgot). 

  My garden and I live in South Wales. 

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• staffsmags Posts: 230

  September 2018

  Thank you everyone.  The tiny rooted cutting can come into the house and the parent in  a big pot can go into the coldframe and home for the best.  Thankyou all. Mags
  

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