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Bowled Mauve

SilverlightSilverlight Posts: 82
in Problem solving

I bought some erysuim Bowled Mauve as plug plants in the autumn but they are still quite weak with just a single 30cm tall stem and not bushy at all.

Should I trim them to encourage them to bush out?

Thanks

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    Did you pot them on first? Plug plants will struggle if planted straight out, especially late in the year. Even something as willing to grow as Erysimum Bowles Mauve.  image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • SilverlightSilverlight Posts: 82

    Yes they were potted on twice but remained single stemmed and have needed a bit of nurturing

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    I take cuttings every year from my Bowles Mauve, but you have to pinch out the middles from the earliest opportunity. They send out sde shoots and soon become a bushy plant,  you could try cutting yours down by half, it will shoot out then.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700

    Sounds like what happened to me last year. I put the plugs straight into the soil and did not pinch and they got leggy and died around mid summer. Everyone was saying how easy they are to grow and couldn't work out why they died. Reading this, it now makes sense.

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