29-11-2005, 12:03 AM
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Storing unplanted plants over winter (Gunnera)
"Rupert" wrote in message
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"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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On 28/11/05 12:14, in article ,
"Janet Baraclough" wrote:
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Good call, IMO. It sounds a bit of a baby to be planted out just
yet. I
don't know what you paid for your plant but we sell them here at
around
£15.50 in 5l. pots. A customer came in and was incandescent with
fury and
regret because he had just bought one the same size at a garden
centre but
paid over £50 for it! If yours was proportionately as expensive as
that, it
deserves some tlc!
Holy cow. They sell for around six pounds here , for one in a pot
that's 8" across the top (I can't think pot sizes in litres). Even B
and
Q has them for around 7 pounds 50.
At Crarae garden, self-seeded gunnera manicata are virtually a weed,
all down the burns and ditches :-)
Yes, well, it would have been a lot better if I hadn't made a vital
typo!
We sell them for £15.50 in 15 (fifteen) litre pots, not 5!! Sorry
about
that piece of carelessness. To some extent, price depends on the size
of
the crown of the plant. A 5l pot is about 9" across, Janet.
Ok :-) However, for anyone thinking of buying one; I found that a
much smaller plant (a self-seedling with two tiny leaves the size of my
palms)) rapidly over-took one bought from a GC in 5 L pot. As with so
many other plants, plant one as small as possible, it will establish
and grow away far faster than larger more expensive ones.
Janet
I believe that's because the larger more expensive plants are usually
supplied in pots that are far too small and they are potbound.
Come to think of it I have yet to buy a potted plant that does not need
repotting immediately---I suppose that's the result of everyone demanding
what appear to be excellent plants at ridiculously cheap prices.
I meant potting on and not repotting--guess I am really showing my age
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