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Flopping plants!

LatimerLatimer Posts: 1,068
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Afternoon everyone. 

It’s been a little while since I popped in here, a combination of weather and work keeping me out of the garden. And I usually only come on here to get you all to solve my problems 😀

This morning I had a bit of time to myself so had a quick walk around the garden to see how everything was. Well, those place I could access that weren’t blocked off by plants draped across the paths! I don’t remember it being this bad before. I’m not one for staking or using those metal hoop things but I guess I may have to get a few of them for the future. 

Maybe this summer is just a bad one, it’s been considerably wet and windy here in Bucks!

How’s everyone else’s garden doing?
I’ve no idea what I’m doing. 
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  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    Today? Blowing around. I imagine one or two plants will be affected - permanently - but if so, that's not bad.
    Chrysanthemum aren't large enough to droop, nor dahlias. Foxgloves will cop it, and salvia.

    Cut down the old raspberry canes a couple of days ago, but not tied in all the new ones yet. Oh well, that's life!!
  • Wrigs21Wrigs21 Posts: 194
    Some of the taller plants have been hammered! I use some of the metal supports but they haven’t really helped after the battering they took 
  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,698
    For the first year ever I have had plants standing tall and proud all by themselves (it's normally too windy) but the tall daisies have taken a hammering over the past 24 hours and the stachys went horizontal a couple of weeks ago. It's not pretty.
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    Yes I’m in north bucks and some of my plants are uprooted and also my neighbours are too . The wind has wrecked my garden .
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    The plants in our garden just love to take over the paths. They prefer this as less competition. Wish they would stay in the beds though as we are forever having to be careful about not getting tangled up as we try and walk down the paths.
    The wind has made a lot of fruit fall early and the yuccas (even though staked and tied up) still insist on falling across another path so we get very wet when we go down that way.
    Hollyhocks and sunflowers had to be tied up as falling all over the place (but not a path this time!)
  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,923
    Latimer said:
    Afternoon everyone. 

    It’s been a little while since I popped in here, a combination of weather and work keeping me out of the garden. And I usually only come on here to get you all to solve my problems 😀

    This morning I had a bit of time to myself so had a quick walk around the garden to see how everything was. Well, those place I could access that weren’t blocked off by plants draped across the paths! I don’t remember it being this bad before. I’m not one for staking or using those metal hoop things but I guess I may have to get a few of them for the future. 

    Maybe this summer is just a bad one, it’s been considerably wet and windy here in Bucks!

    How’s everyone else’s garden doing?

    We've had this before around this time and when it previously trashed the garden we vowed to use more supports. Out of the 50 metal supports we bought, about 35 are currently in use. They haven't saved everything but have definitely made a big difference.
    Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. 

    I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Now you know what a normal summer is like where I live.  That hot stuff we had a while ago  - you can have it back down there!  :D

    Joking apart, if you have lots of perennials, you have to stake them, but you have to do it early enough in the year to make it easier and to make them look more natural. Using shrubs as an alternative support is often better, and growing plants 'hard' helps enormously, because they don't grow as soft or as lush. We have clay soil, so that's always a bit harder as it's naturally full of nourishment.
    We often get plants in pots cowped, even in summer, and I've had things like Cytisus uprooted in rough weather. That's just how it is. You learn quite quickly what works and what doesn't and plant accordingly   :)

    Most of our rough weather was last weekend though, but it wasn't quite as bad as these poor souls - we just had normal gale force stuff  ;)
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    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I've just ordered a lot more plant supports.  Everything in this garden grows much taller than it did in my previous abode, and sprawls about all over the place... it was fine earlier in the year when it was warm, dry and windless, but now that normal weather has resumed, there are collapsed plants everywhere.  I don't much like the look of plants "trussed up" but there's not much alternative at the moment.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • TenNTenN Posts: 184
    I made my own supports many years ago from 6mm rebar that I pulled out of a skip, I leave most of them in all year and the plants grow up and through, eventually hiding them. Useful when I'm adding bulbs or need to divide anything also. Keep an eye out after something has been pulled down or look for off cuts skipped near building works.
  • djosmond41djosmond41 Posts: 6
    Wind in Hampshire lots of it stuff getting flattened battered, its the constant rain of apples that is annoying and dangerous, one apple hit me smack on the head and my first thought wasn't gravity, it was where is my chainsaw.. the roses are shredded and some saplings have blown over in their pots and flattened a rose we bought at Hampton court, I had to wrestle that from a rotund gentleman and it wasn't pretty, it will all blow over and we can safely count up the devastation and shredded vegatation...good for Caterpillers says that guy off Springwatch. 
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