@B3 I'm going to pot it up later and hope for the best 🤞 It's an echebeckia "Summerina Brown" which was a bit of a sod to get hold of so it'd be really handy if it'd root.
When you see a dead stem, don't keep pulling at it, get a pair of secateurs. It'll only snap and take some of the new growth with it which you know, but still do it EVERY year 🤦♀️
That depends on the plant. Dead flower stems on Alstromerias, for example, should be pulled rather than cut.
Don't be lazy and think you can easily dig up a small euonymus with a trowel as you can't be bothered to get the spade ftom the shed . Came up nicely except for a long root which I thought i could pull, now have a shrub with no roots at all.
@K67 Oh, no! That's such a shame. Hopefully you will be able to get a similar one. I wanted to click "Like" because it's good advice, but it was just too sad! Is there any chance of it surviving, or is it a goner?
@B3 Oh, I know - I've been victim to a few (or the perpetrator, depending on your point of view) - so I'm not oblivious to the realities of gardening, but still, always a shame when you lose a plant!
Don't buy a plant you've never grown before... don't watch with resigned and world-weary eyes as, like many of its predecessors, the new plant declines and dies off before the end of the growing season... don't toss out the spent compost and rotted remains onto the border to mulch your shrub... then above all don't spend an ENTIRE MONTH the following spring trying to figure out what on earth the plant that's coming up at the base of your shrub can possibly be and email your sister about it every week... Just don't.
When you see a dead stem, don't keep pulling at it, get a pair of secateurs. It'll only snap and take some of the new growth with it which you know, but still do it EVERY year 🤦♀️
That depends on the plant. Dead flower stems on Alstromerias, for example, should be pulled rather than cut.
I have the bad habit of starting out with secateurs and then descending into yanking everything. The stem I potted up was looking a lot happier yesterday morning after a night in the mini greenhouse and then I spotted a slug on it and that it had had a chomp on one of the leaves. Looked this morning and it (or another one) had finished the remaining leaves. I guess the slugs were stuck in there (except for the one I slung out yesterday) and didn't fancy anything else in there. I've relocated the pot in vain hope but I feel it'll be a futile exercise 😥
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That depends on the plant. Dead flower stems on Alstromerias, for example, should be pulled rather than cut.
Came up nicely except for a long root which I thought i could pull, now have a shrub with no roots at all.