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Newbie Chelsea chopper. Advice needed

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  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    When I said I stripped the lower leaves, I meant the ones on the cuttings by the way: not on the mother plant!
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Beaus Mum said:
    Baby bunnies have Chelsea chopped all my Astrantias for me  :#
    I have loads and loads of Astrantia now, thanks to you sending the original seeds, they’ve just taken off, I cut the first flowers off as soon as they've  finished then they come again. I love them and the slugs don’t.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Stephanie newish gardener said:
    Would this work for delphiniums? Mine didn't flower last year and they are currently growing quite nicely, about 2 foot tall with signs of some buds.
    Nope! If you chop the main stem you won't get flowers.
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    Lyn said:
    Beaus Mum said:
    Baby bunnies have Chelsea chopped all my Astrantias for me  :#
    I have loads and loads of Astrantia now, thanks to you sending the original seeds, they’ve just taken off, I cut the first flowers off as soon as they've  finished then they come again. I love them and the slugs don’t.
    Odd, slugs (and/or snails) seem to be tucking into one of ours. So much so that I dug it up today and popped it in a pot in the hope that it will recover. Just in from "disposing" of slugs and, yes, there were two big ones prospecting around the spot the astrantia used to be!
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