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We were given these plants and have no name, can you name the plant please and if they are a perennial. We have them in white, pink, and red. Many thanks in advance.
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They should be perennials but many varieties on offer these days are best treated as annuals. So you'd need to wait until next year and see if they look viable.
Billericay - Essex
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Ps. Do I do cuttings now as they are dying back?? Or wait till spring.
I only grow reliably perennial ones, so you'd need to experiment if you don't know which ones they are, as @Pete.8 says.
They'll certainly need separated and given a bit of room. Some of them can get quite large.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Dave
They're better in the ground though, and my soil isn't too acidic so they're fine, but most of them are planted in the gravel paths, and in the new gravelled area I made a couple of years ago when I took the grass away.
There isn't a lot of soil below them, and if they get a bit scrappy and bare, I add some sieved soil over them and then a layer of grit and water it in well.
That rejuvenates them. This one had that treatment last year. I pegged stems down too, into the new mix.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...