Maybe it's different for people who have been gardening for forty years. I have only been growing for ten, so I am now revisiting lots of plants I tried at the beginning and failed with. I now have a much better idea why they failed - definitely not to do with the plant, just that I was doing it wrong and didn't know enough.
It depends if I know why it died. If they rot because it was too wet that that can be fixed but if they are devoured by pests or just not right for the climate I wouldn't bother. As I get older, I want to do less mollicodling.
If they stay alive but don't thrive, I'll usually move them at least once to see if they perk up. But when they just turn up their toes, I usually move on. Lavender is my exception - I can't grow it in the garden so I grow it in pots instead
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I have to say, for me, alstrom's grew like weeds but they weren't the ones I thought I bought but the very tall orange and yellow ones.
I have seen neighbours grow those ones in pots! They do look spectacular when the evening sun hits them.
I ended up not buying these alstroemerias. I'll focus on trying some new plants and plants which I know I can grow. Just got a beautiful order of astrantiae, thalictrum and geraniums from Ballyrobert Gardens, all of which will probably do well here.🤞
I have a couple of tender alstroemerias that looked completely dead, no sign of spring growth. Then they suddenly appeared, only to be got by seriously bad frosts. They were an impuse GC buy, wasn’t really keen on them, too dwarf, so I didn’t protect them and kind of wanted them to fail. Now reemerging strongly, so give ‘em a final warning and you never know!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I'm on my third Wisteria. The first two didn't thrive. This time I planted it in a different position and it's doing fine. I had said that if this one wouldn't work I wouldn't try again.
Depends how stupid I think I'm being. I managed to kill mint for about four years running before I actually started gardening properly and it finally became the tenacious beast I was warned about.
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As I get older, I want to do less mollicodling.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”