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Sanguisorba query
Hi all. My neighbour asked me this morning if I thought her sanguisorba was dead. I know nothing about sanguisorbas but it looked dead to me. It looked like straw coloured twigs about 2ft high. She doesn't know which one she's got. From looking online I would presume you cut them back about now to encourage new growth from the base? But hers was quite woody and there wasn't any growth showing low down
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I don't grow them, too dry, but there's nothing to see on a lot of hardy perennials at this time. Just last year's dead growth
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Hmmm. Totally agree nut that there wouldn't be much to see at this time of year but the stems that were there were quite woody, not thin and brittle like a perennial might normally be. Looked like a dead, thin, 2ft tall shrub. I shall hope someone comes on that grows them perhaps, maybe this is completely normal
I chopped mine down the other week because the growth was already coming through at the base. Mine are mid season flowering types though and it is normal for the growth to appear now...
The stems of some of them are quite woody and persistent, but they are all true herbaceous perennials and so they do die down to resting buds in winter. Cut the dried stems back to the ground and look carefully at the base, ours are just beginning to break at ground level. Very slow though.
The shoots from ours are just coming through now. Anybody know if they can be easily divided?
Many thanks to all, especially you Berghill, that's reassuring. Happy Easter to everyone