On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 11:39:10 +0000, shonasdaddy
wrote:


Hi,

I'm a novice gardener and i'm looking for a little advice please?

I bought some large established ball chrysanthemums in Autumn 2009 but
lost them in the hard winter of 2009.

I replaced them in the Summer 2010 with a more hardy daisy type plant
from Dobbies. If I post a picture of the plant, would someone mind
having a go at identifying it and tell me if its dead, alive, needs cut
back or cut to the roots?

Thanks in advance,

Shonasdaddy

AFAIK you can upload pics to Garden Banter as part of a post and it
will store them somewhere on its system and send the text only message
on to the group with links to the pic(s) built in. I don't use Garden
Banter so I don't know how to do this - that's for you to research.

But at this time of the year it's going to be well nigh impossible to
make a reliable judgement from a photo if all we know is it's a "daisy
type plant". The plant will have come with a label. Give us the name
of the plant from that label and we might be able to advise you
better. Please also say whether the plant was in the ground or in a
planter of some sort. If in the ground, what's your soil llike? A lot
of plants are killed over the winter by waterlogged soil rather than
by the cold.