Thank you, I think you're right. It's just been dug up and it looks starved and pot bound. It will be going in my garden into the ground and have some feed.
It looks as if it could do with a good soak in a large container of water before it's planted. That looks like a great example of where multipurpose compost has been used for a long-term planting and it's been completely exhausted and got no body or structure left.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
if you’ve got somewhere (bucket/paddling pool/ plastic trug) that you can give it a good soak put a tiny squeeze of washing up liquid in the water and swoosh it around .., it weakens the surface tension of the water so it soaks into the compost more readily and won’t do the plant any harm.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Mum is going to rinse roots and re-pot into a bigger pot this afternoon.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's just been dug up and it looks starved and pot bound.
It will be going in my garden into the ground and have some feed.
Poor thing.
if you’ve got somewhere (bucket/paddling pool/ plastic trug) that you can give it a good soak put a tiny squeeze of washing up liquid in the water and swoosh it around .., it weakens the surface tension of the water so it soaks into the compost more readily and won’t do the plant any harm.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.