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Brutal Honesty
Caoimhn Barra
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i recently moved into a new house and whilst tackling the overgrown garden I found an Honesty growing in under a hydrangea, I decided to moved it out and under a tree with other perennial plants but it seems to be wilting and losing its leaves, I've been watering it and gave it some multi-purpose feed but I fear it's not working. Can anyone advise?
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Honesty is a biennial - so you sow it and it grows one year, it dies down over the winter then appears again in the spring, grows and flowers, and then dies off for good.
If your honesty flowered this year then it's reached its natural end anyway.
If it was in it's first year this year then it's beginning to die off for the winter and all being well it will reappear next spring and flower.
One thing is for sure, where there's one honest plant, there's likely to be more - they self seed so freely - so even if the one you've moved is finished, there should be more appear in the spring
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Ok thank you all, I was just worried in case I'd disturbed it too much by moving it. Fingers crossed for Springtime!
Grows like a weed round my way.
Welcome to the forum, Caoimhn. (I presume that's an Irish name and I have no idea how to pronounce it!)
Carmen is it? Welcome to the site
Cheers guys! And yes it is the Irish for Kevin, so you don't think I've killed it off?
Ah, close then, bet you liked being called Carmen, sorry
did the Honesty have seed heads on it, you can save them to plant next year Spring.
I've been called stranger things than that, yes it does have seed heads but I was hoping to leave them on the plant because I like how unusual they look. Do you think it's best to step in and salvage them?