Why can't we have this lovely plant doing what it should do? We have tried over many years to no success. We are on clay soil. Is that the problem? Yesterday we saw a fabulous collection. All upright and awsome.
@Sheps Thankyou for the photos. I am going to get a 'Lollipop' when I next visit the GC, @Fire The Corkscrew 'effect 'is something I have never seen before not sure what has happened? @JessicaS If it flowers later it will certainly be a bonus. Thankyou
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
I have no idea what happened with the stems either. They have fused together - like pleaching, but it all must have happened quite quickly. I had a flu and hadn't been down to the plot for two weeks and it happened then. Maybe it missed me and got all twisted up about it. 😊
@bertrand-mabel On another thread yesterday we were comparing growing Rosemary in a clay soil. I have grown V Bon for ten plus years and always finish up weeding some out. My garden is South facing. I have planted them elsewhere in a south facing garden that was freedraining. They struggled. I do think they must need some moisture.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
Verbena Bonariensis is very lusty and easily gets to over 2m high x 50cm wide here but VB Lollipop gets no bigger than 40 x 30cm. Lollipop is more open and straggly than it’s big brother, seems less vigorous and occasionally they just disappear. Both certainly need plenty of water here @GardenerSuze!
I’m on clay @bertrand-mabel but much improved with loads of grit and compost dug in.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie Thanks for the comparisons well worth knowing. I have never watered them here. Sometimes I do have some mildew but there are so many I just pull them out.It's no wonder they didn't do as well in the other garden I mentioned they wouldn't have had enough water and it is very free draining. When I worked in the other garden I would get up early to avoid the heat in summer. Yes I do live in South Notts!
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
Well I’m skulking indoors at the moment @GardenerSuze, just checked the thermometer and it’s 39.3c, think you would have to get up at 5am here 😆 Things can grow differently for me, my Lollipop is certainly not as fulsome as Sheps’ but that could also be because I have to buy 9cm pots online and they presumably take a while to fill out.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Yes. That full sun, sandy pavement bed has had geranium Rozanne flowering from Feb. It was such a mild winter that the Verbena bon never got knocked down and was re-sprouting from March.
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@Fire The Corkscrew 'effect 'is something I have never seen before not sure what has happened?
@JessicaS If it flowers later it will certainly be a bonus. Thankyou
I’m on clay @bertrand-mabel but much improved with loads of grit and compost dug in.