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Lots of foliage but no flower spikes on my acanthus this year!

Anyone any ideas why this should be???

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Lots of foliage but no flower spikes on my acanthus this year!

Anyone any ideas why this should be???

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I have some flowers but not as many as usual :-(

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Hi all,


Lots of foliage but no flower spikes on my acanthus this year!


Anyone any ideas why this should be???


Dunno - I have several plants which *LOOK* like acanthus, grown from
sweet tamarind beans (not the tamarind tree, whose leaves resemble
accacia) and these have never flowered - mind you, they're only two
years old.

I've looked in all sorts of books, but can't find any info on sweet
tamarinds. (I can recommend them though...)

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Lots of foliage but no flower spikes on my acanthus this year!

Anyone any ideas why this should be???

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I have some flowers but not as many as usual :-(

kate
Perhaps too wet last summer? One lot I have are flowering fine [well-drained bed]; the others are reluctant.
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