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Echinacea hybrids hot lava and kon tiki. I cannot keep them from year to year. they are perrenaniel. has anyone got the magic formula for me please
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They are perennials but dont always survive, in the Autumn I cut the back and pild a big lot of homemade compost on top. You could use anything though if you dont make compost, leaves, old grass clippings, old spent compost, just something to protect the roots.
Dont forget that as soon as they show shoots next year the slugs will have them off to ground level, they dont usually recover from that,
thanks, I will have another go as I need them to complete the look
Do you make your own seaweed spray Verdun. I know you have to get the salt out of it first.
This process seems to be quite a hit and miss for me with no sure way for me to have success.. the plants are so expensive. is there anything else that would give me the effect in grasses and rusty red phorniums. I have orange fox tail lilies and heleniums as well
thanks valerie
Sounds wonderful I'm going to have an exiting time. I ordered Cheyenne last year from t & m trying to grow them on now but they dont seem to be happy in garden soil I have may be I will dig them up and try them in pots. Love the grasses and the dahlia bishop of land aft sounds good
thanks will keep this for reference
valerie
Thanks Vernun, will water with seaweed feed and watch over daily. Probably dig up and pot in autumn for a cold greenhouse spell. If they survive the summer. Shall I take all the flowers off this summer if I get any
valerie