Viburnum × bodnantense Charles Lamont - buds not opening

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  17 January

   
  

  Here it is. 

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

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• puschkinia Posts: 229

  17 January

  Thanks for the advice gardenersuze & dovefromabove
  
  Such a lovely photo! You posted that second one on a post I made asking about narrow shrubs and it inspired me to get one I'll give it a good feed. After being garden obsessed in 2022, life got in the way and I neglected the garden a little last year. I've already ordered my 20 bags of Mr Muck and have my feed at the ready so hopefully it'll be better this year

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  17 January

  Ah … I was trying to remember if it was you I’d posted it for previously. It took a few years before it bloomed like that so give it time … it’s worth it. 

  
  

  ‘Life etc’ has definitely got in the way here too, and the clematis is invading the Viburnum… hopefully ‘24 will ge a little less fraught for us both 🤞 

  
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• bédé Posts: 3,095

  17 January edited 17 January

  puschkinia said:

  thanks @Dovefromabove! I'll try that. Fingers crossed it works - it's so beautiful in flower

  ... and not to mention scent.
  
  Flower buds are formed in the summer.  They are bigger and fatter than leaf/shoot buds.  If you have  the luxury, tease one apart with your fingernails.

   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."

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• bédé Posts: 3,095

  17 January edited 17 January

  I have never known feed to help flower formation.  Starving the right plants, yes.

   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."

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  17 January edited 17 January

  It depends what feed you use and when. 

  
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