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Derek Turner
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Late last summer we made a bog garden and planted inter alia a Gunnera
(sp?). It was quite big and cost us £20(!) So far this year there are
no signs of life, should there be by now (Leics)?

I have 2, a tiny one and a larger version. The main idea I gather is to
prevent the crown (like a hard ball of fibre) getting wet and then being
damaged by frost. Most years I have managed to cover the larger one with
hay and its own leaves. One year I only used leaves and they were
quickly blown away, so last year I reverted to the 'piles of hay'
method, and looking carefully under them, the first large curled
greenish shoots are on their way on both plants. I am up in the heights
SW above Cambridge, about 147m asl, so the first thing to stop the winds
from Siberia, apparently.
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David
when the sturm und drang of a
tidal topic recedes, you frequently end up with valuable flotsam.


The knack with leaves is not to break them off but fold them over leaving the
stalk intact. Otherwise when they dry out they do blow away.

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Jonathan Ward
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