1. my evergreen ceanothus, all of which looked dead as dormice, have broken new shoots from 3 cm thick wood near the base - bang goes one theory.
2. My bay shrubs, 6 feet tall and with every leaf a crispy brown, were getting the heave ho and being cut down to ground level before digging them out, only to find that they are all rpoducing tiny red buds close to ground level.
3. My dahlias, left in the ground over winter, were presumed dead, and I was planting out replacements that I have been growing in pots, when I discovered that every one of them has survived and is sprouting new shoots. Now I have nowhere for the replacements to go.
In Lincolnshire last winter we had several nights of 12 C, in two spells. Live and learn!
@Inkadog, I have some overgrowing Ivy that's due a prune in the Autumn, its absolutely loaded with black fly and serves a meal for half my neighbourhood birds and insects, but it is a grotty job I'm not looking forward to.
I have spent all day in the garden...doh, who hasn't?
Nipped off the B&Q this morning to take advantage of their special buy one, get one free offer (typically when my plant budget is already blown for this year). Luckily, I have an understanding husband and went looking for a couple of large shrubs to give my full sun border much needed maturity, in the absence of my Pampas grass.I had a Sambucus and a smoke bush in mind, but could only manage to find the Sambucus, Black Lace. There were no smoke bushes but I'm over the moon to come away with a Eucalyptus Gunii that will add a very beautiful blue-grey foliage to my middle garden and cool down all the hot pinks and reds I seem to be accumulating there. I may well be doing some slight arranging come the autumn, but we'll see how it all pans out. Now I have two structure shrubs, I can work off those much better with the designing part.
Rest of the day's work consisted of weeding, sitting, weeding, sitting, sitting, planting out my broad beans and runners, more weeding and more sitting. Oh, and watering pots ofc
1. Both my Ceanothus regularly sprout from very thick base stems and the pros keep telling us they don't grow from old wood.
2. My Callistemon leavis was totally wiped out after our snow and presumed dead. When I lifted it, I found the base was still alive, so it got potted and left and is now sprouting red buds at base level!
Clearing up around the site where I grew runners last year 2 roots at least are sending up new shoots. Feel a bit mean digging them up. Any thoughts?
From what I have heard about growing from old roots for some reason they don't do well but other than that it is something I have never tried-my feeling is if it was good practise we would hear more about it.
Well that was my feeling. I've got the choice of planting runners with good top growth but still in rootrainers, or fully developed root with teeny top growth. Maybe I'll leave one in and see what happens.
@Figrat-one of my plants leaves has turned yellow overnight-I wonder why-might have to sow a reserve-any ideas?
@WS-whenever I advise someone never to cut back into old wood with lavenders someone always posts smugly that they have done it and they re-sprout--sort of proves that gardening is not an exact science
Wintersong, Sambucus Black Lace is a gorgeous plant--I love mine. Bonus is that deer don't eat it. Wonder if it's possible to propogate it somehow--would like one in my unfenced garden.
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Lovely photos, Geoff. What is growing on the bamboo framework?
Just discovered today -
1. my evergreen ceanothus, all of which looked dead as dormice, have broken new shoots from 3 cm thick wood near the base - bang goes one theory.
2. My bay shrubs, 6 feet tall and with every leaf a crispy brown, were getting the heave ho and being cut down to ground level before digging them out, only to find that they are all rpoducing tiny red buds close to ground level.
3. My dahlias, left in the ground over winter, were presumed dead, and I was planting out replacements that I have been growing in pots, when I discovered that every one of them has survived and is sprouting new shoots. Now I have nowhere for the replacements to go.
In Lincolnshire last winter we had several nights of 12 C, in two spells. Live and learn!
That will be the french beans that I sowed yesterday -so at the moment -nothing
@Geoff, spot on with focus mostly...
@Inkadog, I have some overgrowing Ivy that's due a prune in the Autumn, its absolutely loaded with black fly and serves a meal for half my neighbourhood birds and insects, but it is a grotty job I'm not looking forward to.
I have spent all day in the garden...doh, who hasn't?
Nipped off the B&Q this morning to take advantage of their special buy one, get one free offer (typically when my plant budget is already blown for this year). Luckily, I have an understanding husband
and went looking for a couple of large shrubs to give my full sun border much needed maturity, in the absence of my Pampas grass.I had a Sambucus and a smoke bush in mind, but could only manage to find the Sambucus, Black Lace. There were no smoke bushes but I'm over the moon to come away with a Eucalyptus Gunii that will add a very beautiful blue-grey foliage to my middle garden and cool down all the hot pinks and reds I seem to be accumulating there. I may well be doing some slight arranging come the autumn, but we'll see how it all pans out. Now I have two structure shrubs, I can work off those much better with the designing part.
Rest of the day's work consisted of weeding, sitting, weeding, sitting, sitting, planting out my broad beans and runners, more weeding and more sitting. Oh, and watering pots ofc
@Gold1locks, same things happened to me,
1. Both my Ceanothus regularly sprout from very thick base stems and the pros keep telling us they don't grow from old wood.
2. My Callistemon leavis was totally wiped out after our snow and presumed dead. When I lifted it, I found the base was still alive, so it got potted and left and is now sprouting red buds at base level!
From what I have heard about growing from old roots for some reason they don't do well but other than that it is something I have never tried-my feeling is if it was good practise we would hear more about it.
Happy as always to be proved a numpty
@Figrat-one of my plants leaves has turned yellow overnight-I wonder why-might have to sow a reserve-any ideas?
@WS-whenever I advise someone never to cut back into old wood with lavenders someone always posts smugly that they have done it and they re-sprout--sort of proves that gardening is not an exact science
Wintersong, Sambucus Black Lace is a gorgeous plant--I love mine. Bonus is that deer don't eat it. Wonder if it's possible to propogate it somehow--would like one in my unfenced garden.