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Linaria

j.coates88j.coates88 Posts: 11
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Hi everyone!  

Please can you help me resurrect my linaria? I don't know what's happened to it.. one day it was buzzing full of bees and looking lovely, the next day it was looking decidedly like it might be dying. Its been a star of my very new garden, please help! Thank you,
Jennie 

Ps sorry, no idea why the pics won't rotate!
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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    The only thing you can do is cut all the dead stalks off at the base, give it a good watering and hope for the best.
    Did you cut it right back last autumn? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • j.coates88j.coates88 Posts: 11
    Thanks, Lyn. It was only planted last August, and it was very tiny by the autumn -can you see it just in front of the agapanthus on the right? Should I cut it back now? Thanks for your help, as you can see from the picture, I'm a very new gardener!  The space in this picture was a decking area until last August.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    They are not very long lived at the best of times.
    It might produce some seed you can sow.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I think if you cut of the dead looking stems it will flower again,  I chop mine back and always get a second flush, or more, they flower right into the winter for me. 
    They're better left to self seed so if you get more flowers, just leave them and they’ll do it themselves.  
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Hopefully it will have seeded about.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I think it’s a bit early for them to have already set seed,  @Fire but then, everything’s later here so maybe so. 
    I’m wondering why it went like that in the first place,  has the OP got a dog who may have cocked his leg? 
    I’m hoping that cutting it back to green shoots it will recover.
    They are long lived where we are,  I’ve still got plants from ages ago, plus everywhere else where the seed.  I love them, despite being a weed/wildflower,  I just let them roam and ramble. 
    As with any wildflowers they are best left to self seed.  You can always carefully dig up seedling and replant.


    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Or did anyone spray weedkiller anywhere near?
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited June 2022
    It seemed strange to me. There's not much that will kill them😕
    Edit. They don't like being moved.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    At our last place self-seeded linaria grew in the cracks at the bad of the wall where it joined the pavement. There were always some that looked like that about now because they didn’t get enough water in a spot like that. 

    The ones in the garden soil were lovely … they lasted longer. 

    So what I’m saying is, that looks like the effects of drought … it needed more water at some stage earlier this year.  It’s got quite a  lot of foliage and probably not a large rootball yet, and it’s probably in a rain shadow by the fence and shed. 
    It’ll probably recover  … be patient, keep an eye on it and don’t let it dry out … but don’t let it get too boggy either. 🤞 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • j.coates88j.coates88 Posts: 11
    Thanks, everyone! Yes, the dog probably has spent a penny there, but all the other plants have survived him. It was quite a dry spring here, and then it's been raining constantly recently. So I guess probably it didn't get enough water when it was putting all that growth on. I'll keep watering when it's dry and try cutting some of the dead stems back. Thank you!
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