oooo - lovely (if slightly squiffy). Burncoose wasn't that expensive - I bought quite a few other things to make the postage worthwhile - it would have been rude not to .....
I'd advise anyboy who buys plug plants to pot them on into approx. 9cm or 1 litre pots in a good compost and wait till the pot is filled with roots - then plant out into the garden! If the plugs don't have a lot of roots mix compost with grit or vermiculite and allow to dry out between waterings! Cathy CC Plants Glenalmond, Perthshire
Wild Swan has finally flowered, two miserable little flowers, to say i'm underwhelmed is an understatement after about three season of trying and lots of plants and free replacement ones as well!
Managed to get three plants to actually live and actually grow away strongly this year, then August time two of them rotted and turned to mush, the one survivor gave a single stem with the two flowers on!
Don't know if the survivors were supplied by T&M or Hayloft but it must have cost them a fortune in replacement plants and postage, as well as good will, as I have not bought any plants from either of them since!
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Oh but I did succumb the other week to the new southern belle echinacea!
But she's soooooo pretty
oooo - lovely (if slightly squiffy
). Burncoose wasn't that expensive - I bought quite a few other things to make the postage worthwhile - it would have been rude not to .....
Lol good move!
I'd advise anyboy who buys plug plants to pot them on into approx. 9cm or 1 litre pots in a good compost and wait till the pot is filled with roots - then plant out into the garden! If the plugs don't have a lot of roots mix compost with grit or vermiculite and allow to dry out between waterings! Cathy CC Plants Glenalmond, Perthshire
Final say - my old 5 out of six fails became 9 out of 9 as T&M also delivered three which didn't survive either (2013).
Also spoke to a major GC who had to replace thousands of failures and now won't touch it as a strain.
Enough said!
Wild Swan has finally flowered, two miserable little flowers, to say i'm underwhelmed is an understatement after about three season of trying and lots of plants and free replacement ones as well!
Managed to get three plants to actually live and actually grow away strongly this year, then August time two of them rotted and turned to mush, the one survivor gave a single stem with the two flowers on!
Don't know if the survivors were supplied by T&M or Hayloft but it must have cost them a fortune in replacement plants and postage, as well as good will, as I have not bought any plants from either of them since!
This may help with planting conditions for Anemone Wild Swan.
Growing well in The Prairie Garden West Sussex.
I think your reiteration of climate conditions is the key to successful growing Verdun
I wouldn't attempt to grow them here, too far north and wet.