Close planting helps for support, twigs and sticks from prunings, wire meshes when young - looks awful for a few weeks but soon disappear. Some things lying abut loook lovely anyway.
I love veronicastrums even though they don't always survive my winters and have a fairly short flowering period. I always buy a few new ones each spring and then live in hope.
I'm just getting going on heleniums because it's hard to find the more interesting and newer varieties with better colour but I understand they do very well with the Chelsea chop which encourages shorter, bushier, sturdier stems. It remains to be seen whether the ones I bought last year have survived but I'll be googling about for seeds to grow my own for next year.
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Close planting helps for support, twigs and sticks from prunings, wire meshes when young - looks awful for a few weeks but soon disappear. Some things lying abut loook lovely anyway.
I love veronicastrums even though they don't always survive my winters and have a fairly short flowering period. I always buy a few new ones each spring and then live in hope.
I'm just getting going on heleniums because it's hard to find the more interesting and newer varieties with better colour but I understand they do very well with the Chelsea chop which encourages shorter, bushier, sturdier stems. It remains to be seen whether the ones I bought last year have survived but I'll be googling about for seeds to grow my own for next year.