Hi Jamie, if you want to bother. can you take it out of pot and dig it in soil in a spare corner of the garden, moist soil would be best. Keep watering all summer and if it miraculously puts forth a little shoot you can tend it better. If it dries out and is unresponsive Plant a climber and use it as a support. Valerie
Hi Jamie, if you want to bother. can you take it out of pot and dig it in soil in a spare corner of the garden, moist soil would be best. Keep watering all summer and if it miraculously puts forth a little shoot you can tend it better. If it dries out and is unresponsive Plant a climber and use it as a support. Valerie ..........................................................................................................................
Valerie just look at the shape of the pot! It has a very narrow top.
The only way to get it out is..."you have to let the soil dry out, then saw through the root ball to splitting it into quarters, then lever out the bits." There is no hope for it!
I just hope the pot survives intact. Forget about this dead plant.
Hi Jamie, if you want to bother. can you take it out of pot and dig it in soil in a spare corner of the garden, moist soil would be best. Keep watering all summer and if it miraculously puts forth a little shoot you can tend it better. If it dries out and is unresponsive Plant a climber and use it as a support. Valerie
Thanks Valerie, that’s a good idea. I hate giving up on plants, feels wasteful. KR jamie
The likelihood is that the top is dead but the rootstock might respond to copious watering because if is a tough native Salix which will then grow into a huge tree .... be careful what you wish for.
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That is a nice pot but a really bad shape for any perennial planting. It would be a nightmare to get any established root ball out to move a plant to a bigger pot.
Absolutely! There’s no potting on once its grown, you have to let the soil dry out, then saw through the root ball to splitting it into quarters, then lever out the bits. Nightmare indeed. But I was young and naive when I bought the pot!
So true. My next door neighbour has a couple of young olive trees in pots like that. Disaster waiting to happen.
With that shaped pot I plant into a plastic flower pot and slip that into the more ornamental one ... with luck I can usually find one that rests on the rim.
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It has a very narrow top.
The only way to get it out is..."you have to let the soil dry out, then saw through the root ball to splitting it into quarters, then lever out the bits."
There is no hope for it!
I just hope the pot survives intact.
Forget about this dead plant.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.