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Longest lived plant

ElusiveElusive Posts: 992

Hi all after seeing the oldest houseplant thread, I was wondering what your oldest garden plants are?

I think we can exclude trees and shrubs as they tend to live a long time anyway, although feel free to add one if you think its old enough image

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  • I have a fuschia in the garden that is around 35 yrs old. Does that qualify?

  • I have a cyclamen hederafolium corm that's about 40 yrs old, I moved it 3 years ago, was about the size of an iPad!! Still flowering image

  • There are 2 huge climbing roses, a honeysuckle and a clematis in my garden which I think are both at least 30 years old. You can see where one of the roses has had past stems of a fairly large diameter cut back to the ground. It's been flowering from May and is still going.

    The other rose has grown through an arch with later flowers up to 4 meters in the air.

  • ElusiveElusive Posts: 992

    wow those are some tough plants.

    Funnily enough I recently moved a Cyclamen Hed. the Corm was only about the size of my Palm though.

     

  • PalaisglidePalaisglide Posts: 3,414

    "Well" does this count? I have a Peony cutting in my garden that came from Dads Garden, he knew it as a child and it was a mature bush then we think it went into the garden pre 1900 possibly 10-20 years prior so does a cutting count.

    Frank.

  • ElusiveElusive Posts: 992

    well the original plant certainly does count, for an herbaceous plant to live over 100 years is epic!

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