My petunia red velour started producing new shoots after I trimmed it quite short last autumn and put it in unheated conservatory. Now I’m wondering if it will survive and keep going in the second summer and if I need to trim it again or do anything else before spring?
Do nothing, @Big Blue Sky save for keeping it sheltered and maybe pinch out some shoots. Come March you could refresh the compost, add fertilser and pot it on. I reckon you could take about two dozen cuttings, maybe more, if you wanted extra plants.
I’ll just say that, having read the initial posts, last summer my Red Velour grew to 6’ scrambling up a callicarpa. In the Autumn I cut it back to 8” but left it outside against a east facing brick wall only covering it with a triple layer of thick fleece in the past two weeks as temperatures have dropped to -7° C. It still looks green and quite chipper.
Thank you @BenCotto, “do nothing” is definitely my favourite course of action, I’m really good at it 😎😂 Hopefully they will repeat last year’s performance - they were stunning and the flowers stayed on almost until frost.
I wonder for how many years I can keep them going like that? 🤔
This year my garden longings have started early - the "oh, I wish I had a greenhouse, lake, pond, arbour, apple orchard, meadow, woodland, detatched thatched cottage, walled garden, dry stone wall, polytunnel etc etc". Ho hum. It doesn't usually kick in until after all the lovely forum posts start around May; by which time I start thinking of which part of the country I might move to and looking up removal firms.
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Now I’m wondering if it will survive and keep going in the second summer and if I need to trim it again or do anything else before spring?
I’ll just say that, having read the initial posts, last summer my Red Velour grew to 6’ scrambling up a callicarpa. In the Autumn I cut it back to 8” but left it outside against a east facing brick wall only covering it with a triple layer of thick fleece in the past two weeks as temperatures have dropped to -7° C. It still looks green and quite chipper.
Hopefully they will repeat last year’s performance - they were stunning and the flowers stayed on almost until frost.