No in the garden as well but is worse in either pots and tubs!
Chris no 2
Yes I find the yellow varieties hard to deal with,they die very easily!
Have found this season that it has been hard to increase the stock as very few threw any young shoots so far!
Have just come back after a day out visiting three garden centres, and all of them had really rubbishy heucheras for sale, some a disgrace really!
Also all had other plants for sale at 50% off, they were not worth 50 pence most of them!
The garden centres do themselves a disservice in offering rubbish like they do!
If when the plants started to go off they were to offer them cheaply, instead of waiting to they were only fit for the compost heap, they might get a few more sold!
I started growing these quite colourful plants a few years ago,
I found them easy to grow, the lighter colour ones seem to do better in semi-shade, the darker, manage some sun, if small, start them off in a pot in shade, keep moist, not to wet, as they start to grow,feed them with a general fertilizer, the flowers are loved by Bees, watch out for the Vine Weevil grubs,these dreadful insects can cause such fatalities , they eat the roots,the results dont always show for some time,i usually use Vine Weevil earth soak, The plants can take some time to take off, so easy does it.
Another thing to know, they are very easy to propagate . so try and enjoy.
Wow loads more replies! Thanks everyone. Have been busy in the garden these last few days as summer seems to have arrived at last and I have felt too exhausted to spend time on the pc afterwards so missed all your replies. Sooooo much catching up to do.
I will bear all your ideas in mind when I come to buy heucheras in the future. I am determined to win the battle but I am obviously going to have to be careful as we ahve vine weevils in the front garden and as yet I need to try and obliterate them there.
I have been successful with growing them from seed this year. They are all flowering nicely. I have the parent plants growing in sun, semi shade and shade and all are doing well. It makes a change for me to be able to grow something successfully when others growers find them difficult!
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Lorelei
No in the garden as well but is worse in either pots and tubs!
Chris no 2
Yes I find the yellow varieties hard to deal with,they die very easily!
Have found this season that it has been hard to increase the stock as very few threw any young shoots so far!
Have just come back after a day out visiting three garden centres, and all of them had really rubbishy heucheras for sale, some a disgrace really!
Also all had other plants for sale at 50% off, they were not worth 50 pence most of them!
The garden centres do themselves a disservice in offering rubbish like they do!
If when the plants started to go off they were to offer them cheaply, instead of waiting to they were only fit for the compost heap, they might get a few more sold!
I started growing these quite colourful plants a few years ago,
I found them easy to grow, the lighter colour ones seem to do better in semi-shade, the darker, manage some sun, if small, start them off in a pot in shade, keep moist, not to wet, as they start to grow,feed them with a general fertilizer, the flowers are loved by Bees, watch out for the Vine Weevil grubs,these dreadful insects can cause such fatalities , they eat the roots,the results dont always show for some time,i usually use Vine Weevil earth soak, The plants can take some time to take off, so easy does it.
Another thing to know, they are very easy to propagate . so try and enjoy.
Wow loads more replies! Thanks everyone. Have been busy in the garden these last few days as summer seems to have arrived at last and I have felt too exhausted to spend time on the pc afterwards so missed all your replies. Sooooo much catching up to do.
I will bear all your ideas in mind when I come to buy heucheras in the future. I am determined to win the battle but I am obviously going to have to be careful as we ahve vine weevils in the front garden and as yet I need to try and obliterate them there.
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