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Briza media
yarrow2
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My Briza Media stalks are all like this. Surely this can't be rain damage and has to be flies, beasties of some kind..??
I've never cut the stalks on my Briza but feel like cutting them all at the bottom...but wondering if new ones will actually grow. There are hardly any stalks this year.
Any advice? Many thanks.
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It looks like it's flowering to me! I have one, will keep an eye on to see if it does the same.
Hi Sue. I feel a twit if it's meant to be like this. Every other year the little pendant thingies have remained intact and look beautiful when they turn from green to other shades around August. This is the first time that the bottom of them have been straggly as if torn. Is that what you mean by flowering - that something will appear on the bottoms? They've never done this before.
They are flowering now, the sticky out bits are the 'working parts' with pollen
In the sticks near Peterborough
SwissSue and nutcutlet...thanks so much. I had no idea that they did this as I've only ever seen the heart shaped pendants intact until the winter.
Another daft question. I have two BM's. The stalks with pendants were really battered with rain on the no.2 plant two weeks ago and the stalks were hammered by the rain to the ground. There don't seem to be any other stalks. I noticed this last year that when a stalk was damaged in some way no others appeared to grow at all. If I chop the ground fallen stalks at the bottom...should it throw up more this year?
I'm thinking I maybe ought to lift them in the autumn and move them to a sheltered spot. I don't get many stalks to be honest on each plant.
Briza media won't need shelter, it grows naturally in open grasslands. Why not let it seed and start some new plants. Or split it up, you could to that now. Cut it back and pull/cut it apart.
In the sticks near Peterborough