Thank you for taking the trouble to point out the good bits @Loxley, it's very kind of you.
Unfortunately, that's the downside of internet purchases. I'll re-pot them as best I can and hopefully, sometime later in the summer I'll be showing a photo of them looking like the ones @Lyn has posted, ever the optimist. 😅
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
I think you do have the wanted plants there, but also definitely grass and also liverwort, indicating these plants have been damp for some time.
Do get rid of that liverwort ASAP, @D0rdogne_Damsel ! I once brought some to my garden from a pot bought at a nursery, and subsequently it started to invade a damp part of the pergola soil. Terribly difficult to get rid of.
@D0rdogne_Damsel I had exactly the same from a French nursery - PdeF in my case. Sodden, weed infested plants. I pulled most of the weeds out carefully, scraped off as much of the liverwort as possible, topped the pots up with dry grit and watered sparingly from below when required, in the existing pots. When it looked as if the liverwort had died off, after a week or so, I potted on, again topping off with dry gravel. That seemed to do the trick.
I found liatris needs a lot of water here to flower well, once growing on well and transplanted to the ground, much more than I thought they would.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Thank you all for the advice. Theya re potted on now in new compost, all grass and (hopefully) Liverworth @Papi Jo removed. They are looking fairly healthy, now. I am nursing them though at the moment.
And @Nollie these were also from PdeF, bought with a credit note because a previous order failed badly, in fact all 6 of the ones I bought earlier died. I was pleased they didn't quibble about the credit note, but I won't bother using them again.
I have really missed the plant fairs and markets we usually have at this time of the year, affected by Covid regulations of course, I so much prefer to by plants I can see and discuss with the sellers. One of the downsides of living in rural France sadly, lack of decent size nurseries and GCs.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
Getting rubbish sent to you - sadly isn't purely a function of ordering over the InterWeb! Most firm's packing departments are filled by folk well down the payscale if not the evolutionary one - if you tried to tell them anything about "weed" - you'd be smelling smoke shortly after or they'd peke out and throw the lot in the bin. Covid has made a bad situation up to ten times worse. Most firms have the more intelligent bring stuff in to a collecting area like a sorting office but rarely have the time to do much actual sorting. The only way get better service is to - pay more and order from smaller specialists.
Of the 16 I ordered from PdeF only 5 arrived and two of those are dead! They claimed they were making an automatic refund to my credit card for the missing plants but after two months and two stern reminders it still hasn’t appeared. I won’t be using them again either. Leaderplant are much better, but more limited choice.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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Unfortunately, that's the downside of internet purchases. I'll re-pot them as best I can and hopefully, sometime later in the summer I'll be showing a photo of them looking like the ones @Lyn has posted, ever the optimist. 😅
I found liatris needs a lot of water here to flower well, once growing on well and transplanted to the ground, much more than I thought they would.
And @Nollie these were also from PdeF, bought with a credit note because a previous order failed badly, in fact all 6 of the ones I bought earlier died. I was pleased they didn't quibble about the credit note, but I won't bother using them again.
I have really missed the plant fairs and markets we usually have at this time of the year, affected by Covid regulations of course, I so much prefer to by plants I can see and discuss with the sellers. One of the downsides of living in rural France sadly, lack of decent size nurseries and GCs.
Covid has made a bad situation up to ten times worse. Most firms have the more intelligent bring stuff in to a collecting area like a sorting office but rarely have the time to do much actual sorting.
The only way get better service is to - pay more and order from smaller specialists.