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Monkshood problem .......

C PC P Posts: 22
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Hello, i bought a monkshood plant last year and it didn't have any flowers and I thought oh well maybe next year. 

This year it's grown quite tall but again no flowers .............image 

hope someone can help and tell me why it's not producing flower buds .........?

thanks. image

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444

    which one is it CP, none of mine have flowered yet. but I expect they willimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,062

    I have both blue and cream ones in flower now and more blue ones to come later in the season.   Maybe yours are short of potassium which helps promote flowering.

    Try giving them a liquid feed of rose or tomato fertiliser to see if that helps and next spring, scatter a generous handful of rose fertiliser granules round the plants.   If you're organic, then make a soup from comfrey leaves then dilute and water that on.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • C PC P Posts: 22

    I don't know what it's called :/ but it should have purple flowers ..........

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,062

    There are at least two purple/blue varieties and one doesn't flower till later but try the feed anyway.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • C PC P Posts: 22

    Yeah I will give it some liquid food , see if any thing happens ....... thank you imageimage

  • artjakartjak Posts: 4,167

    My purple ones flowered about 5/6 weeks ago, yours must be the late flowering onesimage

  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845
    Hi CP. Did you cut it back last season? I did that one year and it never flowered the next. I just leave it now, the dried stem is pretty in the frost and the new growth has a frame to zoom up.
    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444

    I think that's coincidence Lily. The stems die back in winter whatever we do. Mine always fall over and I cut them off when they don't look nice any more. They always flower, they're all very late flowering but they never fail.

    I must get some of the earlier flowering onesimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845
    What a good idea, which ones do you recommend?
    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444

    . Might be A lycotonum. I haven't researched properly yet.

    I was going to buy in flower and choose what I liked the look of whatever it was called.image

     



    In the sticks near Peterborough
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