I've just bought this plant. I was going to grow it in a pot but it sounds as if it needs to go in the ground. If it's anything like other shrubs of this type it will need regular pruning to stop it taking over. I shall take some cuttings and try them in different situations and see where it likes to grow best.
Mine are very much better now I've moved them from pots into good garden soil. I love them! Cuttings placed in water two weeks ago are now developing little roots....
Mine flowered red first this year and is just starting to get hot lip flowers. I quite like how it does that although I don't remember it doing that when I first got it.
Can I take cuttings from a well established "Hotlips" now? & how do I cut it - just below a leaf joint? And do I root it in a glass of water first, or straight into Innes seed compost (or other?) .
also, which is best soil for my sweet pea plugs (for large pots, to grow on cones)? They are ready to plant- out now.
Hi there i have had my hot lips a few years now, first year flowered great then wen it lost its flowers i actually forgotten what plant it was until i admired it in someones elses garden and it reminded me that i did buy one and that that must be it as leaves same appearence..so last year we planted out into ground as no flowers appeared..still no flowers this year just leaves and branches spreading out wide...i have never pruned it i am assuming now after reading this that perhaps that is my answer? although i have always feed it tomato fed in ground and wen in pot too. thank you
The plant make white flowers when really hot I brought mine and that is what the man said I did have the red and white flowers now, white it is the heat that does that
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the leaves of my hot lips have blacky, brownish and are sticky. Can anyone give me any help as to what i should do.
I've just bought this plant. I was going to grow it in a pot but it sounds as if it needs to go in the ground. If it's anything like other shrubs of this type it will need regular pruning to stop it taking over. I shall take some cuttings and try them in different situations and see where it likes to grow best.
Mine flowered red first this year and is just starting to get hot lip flowers. I quite like how it does that although I don't remember it doing that when I first got it.
Can I take cuttings from a well established "Hotlips" now? & how do I cut it - just below a leaf joint? And do I root it in a glass of water first, or straight into Innes seed compost (or other?) .
also, which is best soil for my sweet pea plugs (for large pots, to grow on cones)? They are ready to plant- out now.
Hi there i have had my hot lips a few years now, first year flowered great then wen it lost its flowers i actually forgotten what plant it was until i admired it in someones elses garden and it reminded me that i did buy one and that that must be it as leaves same appearence..so last year we planted out into ground as no flowers appeared..still no flowers this year just leaves and branches spreading out wide...i have never pruned it i am assuming now after reading this that perhaps that is my answer? although i have always feed it tomato fed in ground and wen in pot too. thank you
mine was in the ground and flowered for 2 years but this year it has done nothing. It has no leaves or floweres. Do I throw it out?
The plant make white flowers when really hot I brought mine and that is what the man said I did have the red and white flowers now, white it is the heat that does that
That's interesting gardengirl- and explains why it turns white later in the year- mine is almost all white now.
Ref your plant, eleventh hour, I'd be a bit alarmed if it had no leaves...Is any of the wood green if you cut in to it?