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Daft question time
I have a number of perennial plants that have been ravaged by the S&S
brigade. The plants are in the borders and I assume their roots are working away but there is no obvious green activity up top. I don't really want to lose these plants but I am at the bottom of my gardening learning curve and I'd like to know the most sensible way to try to revive these plants. The options I can think of are :- a) leave them where they are but feed them intensively and protect from S&S attack and hope they recover. b) dig them up, repot them, protect them from S&S attack and provide due care and sustenance. c) leave where they are, don't do anything special and hope they recover next spring after winter dormancy. Obviously S&S Protection will be required. Any thoughts or comments - sorry for being a bit dim. -- Paul C |
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Daft question time
"Paul Corfield" wrote in message ... I have a number of perennial plants that have been ravaged by the S&S brigade. The plants are in the borders and I assume their roots are working away but there is no obvious green activity up top. I don't really want to lose these plants but I am at the bottom of my gardening learning curve and I'd like to know the most sensible way to try to revive these plants. The options I can think of are :- a) leave them where they are but feed them intensively and protect from S&S attack and hope they recover. b) dig them up, repot them, protect them from S&S attack and provide due care and sustenance. c) leave where they are, don't do anything special and hope they recover next spring after winter dormancy. Obviously S&S Protection will be required. Any thoughts or comments - sorry for being a bit dim. When you say "no obvious green activity up top" do you mean there is a green stem but no obvious buds, or that there isn't any stem showing? If all the stem and buds have gone there may well be nothing left for the plant to generate new growth above ground. I think that this kind of damage during the growing season could be the end of them; it is a different situation from the planned die back of some perennials over winter. Even then, most plants need some stem as the starting point for next year's growth. It would help to know what kind of plants we are speculating about :-) I have some Nicotiana which are coming back from very little, but the ones that are recovering did have at least some green stem left above soil level. Cheers Dave R |
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