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Angelica archangelica

adamadamantadamadamant Posts: 278
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Hi has anyone grown this?  I am a little confused by different information on different sites.  I have had this plant two seasons, it had foliage in the first, and flowerheads in the second as I expected.  I thought it would come back again with new stems this coming summer and repeat the two-year process (being hapaxanthic, very fancy!) but I just saw a site which says it dies after the second year. I was going to transplant it anyway so should I, or should it be heading for the compost heap? Thanks

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I grow it and it does indeed die after flowering. I find it is not always biennial though, sometimes not flowering until its third or fourth year.
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  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    They tend to spread their seed in the area they grow and then once they germinate and start growing in earnest I tend to leave a couple of the healthy plants or transplant them in the right place and the cycle begins again. 
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  • adamadamantadamadamant Posts: 278
    Thanks yes, I'll look out for seedlings.  Fingers crossed 
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    edited 30 January
    I too have found it hard to predict. I first grew it around 10  years ago from a bought plant. After flowering it disappeared, as expected. 
    No sign of it for a couple of years, then 2 plants appeared some distance away in a wild boggy area. Some seed must have reached our pond and been carried there by water. Some new seedlings showed up near the original site 3 years ago and I have retained 3 which I am hoping will flower this year. It remains to be seen whether the boggy triangle ones will ever be resurrected. 
    You could maybe look at Lovage for a plant with similar presence, but much more reliable behaviour :)
  • adamadamantadamadamant Posts: 278
    Well here's an update, I wanted to move it anyway so thought nothing ventured nothing gained may as well yank it up, and it is already producing new shoots from the old rootstock, not a seedling. Plants do sometimes behave in their own sweet way!

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