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Red hot pokers
Staceyj
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For many years I have had foliage galore from my red hot pokers but never any pokers! I have lived in hope that one day they will burst into flower but I think maybe the time has come to give up. Is there anything I can do or has the time come to dig up and replace?
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Try feeding them with tomato food to encourage flowering. Worth a try.
Do you cut them back each year? Mine went for years with gradually reducing flowering because I didn't realise that they do better if they're pruned. Although actually I tend to pull out the old leaves rather then cutting back because my shears won't go through them.
Yes Singing Gardener. I cut them down each autumn. Seems such a shame to take them out. They grow their foliage with such enthusiasm!
Thanks for the advice plant pauper but I've tried that. Have run out of known options
Can you split them? I hate throwing out plants.
I'd dig up and replace. Or dig up and split up.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Mine are eaten by slugs before the flowers get a chance
I have split them in the past but still nothing. I think I'll leave them until the autumn then out they come. Thanks for the advice everyone.
That surprises me green fingered finch. My garden is awash with slugs (grrr) but they have never touched my pokers.
Really Stacey? How strange. Of all the plants in the garden the red hot pokers seem to be the one we just cannot protect from slugs. Maybe our slugs have a different pallet to yours!