Why do plants do this?

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  June 2023

  Possibly, but it could also be a cat or a fox

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• Busy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

  June 2023

  Mine do that too. I tie a piece of jute twine around them.

  Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.

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• Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

  June 2023 edited June 2023

  Your soil is too rich.
  It frequently happens with rich soils.
  The plant makes the most of the nutrients available so grows quickly. When the flowers open the weight is too much for the stems to bear.
  
  Salvias do best in poor soils.
  They're smaller but far more robust
  
  You could put supports around them before they flower.
  I get it with salvias, veronica, sedum and plenty of other plants too.
  I have about 40 mild-steel supports which work well on the rare occasions i remember to put them in at the right time
  
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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  June 2023

  The answer to your first question is ‘gravity’ and the solution is, as you suggest, support.  This is the sort of thing 
  https://www.therange.co.uk/garden/seeds-bulbs-and-propagation/plant-support-and-stakes/grow-through-plant-supports-round/?msclkid=eaea93dd4d7b12817db1f75112df091e&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=PLA%7C%7CGardenOutdoor%7C%7CR+&utm_term=4575205337764576&utm_content=PLA%7C%7CGardenOutdoor%7C%7CR+ 
  

  
  

  But it needs to be put in place early in the season so the plant can grow through it. It’s then  virtually hidden. 

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

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  June 2023

  What type of salvia is that?
  you need to put a plant support round it,  Monty Don makes his own,  there’s a YouTube video know how. 

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• Papi Jo Posts: 4,254

  June 2023

  Lyn said:

  you need to put a plant support round it,  Monty Don makes his own,  there’s a YouTube video know how. 

  So does papi Jo.

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  June 2023

  Papi Jo said:

  Lyn said:

  you need to put a plant support round it,  Monty Don makes his own,  there’s a YouTube video know how. 

  So does papi Jo.

  So do we. 😉

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• Jenny_Aster Posts: 945

  June 2023

  Lyn said:

   Monty Don makes his own,  there’s a YouTube video know how. 

  Believe this is the one you're referring too. I must have a go at making a few. Thanks for the heads up.
  
  https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-make-steel-rod-plant-supports/
  

  Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 
  
  Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  June 2023

  Yes that’s the one.  You can buy the rods from builders merchants.  Don’t underestimate the lengths though,  you may think 3 Mts is long but it’s not when you’ve made them.  

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• floralies Posts: 2,718

  June 2023

  Three of our Salvias have gone like that this year, we didn't get the supports in early enough.

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