I repotted my yellow flowering broom 2 months ago as it was too large in the pot it was in, it has not flowered since and is turning very brown and woody looking, do you think it will recover.
I have two spindley 3 year old yellow brooms that are too tall now for the spot under my window, is it too late to cut them back in early October? Ive never had brooms before.
Bridie - as you've probably seen in the earlier posts, there's a limit to how much chopping you can do. Depends how big they are and how small you'd like them to be.You might be better taking a few cuttings to replace the ones you have (bit late now possibly but worth trying) or just removing them, starting afresh with a couple of new plants then keeping them managed in the right way, ie pruned back a bit each year after flowering in springtime.
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Re storing Bramley apples, hope this link is helpful
One of our brooms has turned brown due to dryness in the greenhouse and sun whilst we were away. As it is now early September, can we cut off the brown top halves as the lower stems look fine?
Brooms tend to be short lived and, if you look at them dispassionately, they are very dull for 49 weeks of the year, glorious for 2 and tatty for another week as the petals fade. If it's too big for its place, take cuttings if you must but dig it out and replace with something that earns its keep a bit more.
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For what it's worth, we have a very old broom (probably the Warminster one) inherited with the house. I hack it about with gay abandon each year as it gets top heavy and it's sometimes very windy here. It always flowers well (the smell is divine) but is probably on it's last legs now so will be removed when we next replace the fence it's up against. Obelixx is right, they don't do much for the rest of the year, so I allow the winter flowering clematis "Freckles" to climb though some of the branches.
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I repotted my yellow flowering broom 2 months ago as it was too large in the pot it was in, it has not flowered since and is turning very brown and woody looking, do you think it will recover.
I have two spindley 3 year old yellow brooms that are too tall now for the spot under my window, is it too late to cut them back in early October? Ive never had brooms before.
Sue - don't get your hopes up.
Bridie - as you've probably seen in the earlier posts, there's a limit to how much chopping you can do. Depends how big they are and how small you'd like them to be.You might be better taking a few cuttings to replace the ones you have (bit late now possibly but worth trying) or just removing them, starting afresh with a couple of new plants then keeping them managed in the right way, ie pruned back a bit each year after flowering in springtime.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Re storing Bramley apples, hope this link is helpful
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/basics/techniques/growfruitandveg_harvestapples1.shtml
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Obelixx is right, they don't do much for the rest of the year, so I allow the winter flowering clematis "Freckles" to climb though some of the branches.