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Time to stake your herbaceous perennials!

Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
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There are quite a few discussions already started on the topic of staking. As I've just been busy placing my stakes around various plants in the garden I thought this might be a timely reminder. Here are some pics taken today, which you are invited to complete with your own staked specimens, including the materials used, etc.
More details about how I make my own metal plant supports on my garden site here: Making Your Own Metal Plant Supports.
Tradescantia x andersoniana ‘Sweet Kate’
Aster Vasterival
Aconitum napellus
Aster novi-belgii 'Marie Ballard'
Lavatera x clementii 'Barnsley' in the foreground and dahlia sp on the left at the back
Penstemon 'Garnet'
Thalictrum delavayi 'Ankum'
Lupin 'La Châtelaine'

Eurybia divaricata

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  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,698
    That's one job that I usually forget until everything gets flattened by the wind. Thanks for the reminder.
  • RoddersUKRoddersUK Posts: 537
    I don't take mine out  :D
  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    So true @Papi Jo. I have been looking for those grid-like ones you have under your Asters but no success. Do you know any online EU websites? 

    Luxembourg
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    coccinella said:
    So true @Papi Jo. I have been looking for those grid-like ones you have under your Asters but no success. Do you know any online EU websites? 
    The "grid-like" ones above the Aster Vasterival are actually made of a) my home-made metal plant supports (see my garden site for the recipe) and b) a piece of builder's concrete wire mesh given by my mason. Nothing fancy, and it does look over the top on the photo, but not so when those Asters have reached their top form! Here's another pic, dated 2 years ago:

  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    RoddersUK said:
    I don't take mine out  :D
    Some of mine are "permanent" fixtures as well. Problem is if you need to pull them out after a few years' time, they are next to impossible to move, they are like cement-stuck. >:)
  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    Thank you @Papi Jo. I will look up your garden, just realised that you have a link to it.

    Luxembourg
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Support plants BEFORE the rain and wind.  It might be too late already.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    @coccinella you can buy ready made ‘grow-thru’ supports with integral mesh tops on amaz*n cheap enough if you haven’t got the means to make them. I use two simple plant hoops tied back to back with sturdy string criss-crossed across.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    If you have a wilko near you, I have found these useful.




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