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Outdoor girl
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I planted some winter aconites last year - as small green plants with yellow flowers. So far there is no sign of them. Did I do something wrong or do they sulk for a year or so? Any advice welcome!
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I think it may be that they'll peep out in a while .... maybe they're not convinced that spring's coming yet
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oh thank you - I always was impatient!
Hopefully they will appear. Being woodland plants they do need shade in the Summer to emulate tree foliage and stop them drying out. I didn't provide that the first time I grew them and only one came up the next year.
I couldn't get them going here for years though they seeded everywhere in my last garden. They're beginning to take off now.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Mine are flowering now...oes i good compost are fine, those i poor soil seem to have disappeared.