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Caring for winter savory
I have a small winter savory plant in a pot out of doors. It doesn't
look very happy. What should I do with it? -- Which of the seven heavens / Was responsible her smile / Wouldn't be sure but attested / That, whoever it was, a god / Worth kneeling-to for a while / Had tabernacled and rested. |
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Caring for winter savory
Frederick Williams writes
I have a small winter savory plant in a pot out of doors. It doesn't look very happy. What should I do with it? Difficult to tell unless you can tell us in what way it doesn't look very happy! It will probably do better in a well drained soil in a sunny spot, and is perfectly capable of surviving outdoors over winter. Generally plants do better in the ground than in pots. Pots are for if you need to move the plants around (eg to take them inside in the winter, or move them into an obscure spot while they're not flowering) or because you can't provide their preferred soil conditions in your garden. -- Kay |
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Caring for winter savory
K wrote:
Frederick Williams writes I have a small winter savory plant in a pot out of doors. It doesn't look very happy. What should I do with it? Difficult to tell unless you can tell us in what way it doesn't look very happy! It will probably do better in a well drained soil in a sunny spot, Maybe some gravel mixed in with the potting compost would help. and is perfectly capable of surviving outdoors over winter. Generally plants do better in the ground than in pots. Pots are for if you need to move the plants around (eg to take them inside in the winter, or move them into an obscure spot while they're not flowering) or because you can't provide their preferred soil conditions in your garden. -- Kay -- Which of the seven heavens / Was responsible her smile / Wouldn't be sure but attested / That, whoever it was, a god / Worth kneeling-to for a while / Had tabernacled and rested. |
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Caring for winter savory
In article , K
writes Generally plants do better in the ground than in pots. Pots are for if you need to move the plants around (eg to take them inside in the winter, or move them into an obscure spot while they're not flowering) or because you can't provide their preferred soil conditions in your garden. We saw a really pretty blue flowered plant at Waterperry last week. The 'gardener' didn't know what it was, the office didn't know when she took a photo and phoned it back to them and she suggested either thyme or rosemary. Eventually a lovely old lady walked past and said casually that it was a blue savory. Very pretty and most of the group i was with have resolved to try and buy a plant! Needless to say, none in the garden centre attached to the gardens as ever. -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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Caring for winter savory
Janet Tweedy writes
In article , K writes Generally plants do better in the ground than in pots. Pots are for if you need to move the plants around (eg to take them inside in the winter, or move them into an obscure spot while they're not flowering) or because you can't provide their preferred soil conditions in your garden. We saw a really pretty blue flowered plant at Waterperry last week. The 'gardener' didn't know what it was, the office didn't know when she took a photo and phoned it back to them and she suggested either thyme or rosemary. Eventually a lovely old lady walked past and said casually that it was a blue savory. Very pretty and most of the group i was with have resolved to try and buy a plant! Needless to say, none in the garden centre attached to the gardens as ever. Interseting. Mine is white flowered - I didn't know it came with blue flowers. Hyssop is what I used to grow for really intensely deep blue flowers. -- Kay |
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Caring for winter savory
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Janet Tweedy wrote: We saw a really pretty blue flowered plant at Waterperry last week. The 'gardener' didn't know what it was, the office didn't know when she took a photo and phoned it back to them and she suggested either thyme or rosemary. Eventually a lovely old lady walked past and said casually that it was a blue savory. Very pretty and most of the group i was with have resolved to try and buy a plant! Needless to say, none in the garden centre attached to the gardens as ever. Try hyssop. I don't think that there IS a blue winter savory. I grow both, and they look fairly similar, though the former is more upright. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Caring for winter savory
K wrote:
Frederick Williams writes I have a small winter savory plant in a pot out of doors. It doesn't look very happy. What should I do with it? Difficult to tell unless you can tell us in what way it doesn't look very happy! It has about six sprigs one of which is dying. Since the rest looks ok (ish) it may simply be that I damaged that sprig while transplanting it. It will probably do better in a well drained soil in a sunny spot, The label says plant in well-drained soil _and_ water well before planting and keep moist. I dunno, my dad was a gardener but I haven't inherited his gardeningness. -- Which of the seven heavens / Was responsible her smile / Wouldn't be sure but attested / That, whoever it was, a god / Worth kneeling-to for a while / Had tabernacled and rested. |
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Caring for winter savory
In article , K
writes Interseting. Mine is white flowered - I didn't know it came with blue flowers. Hyssop is what I used to grow for really intensely deep blue flowers. Too low for hyssop and it didn't have the same leaf. It smelled a cross between rosemary and thyme and looked like a cross between them as well. -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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Caring for winter savory
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writes Try hyssop. I don't think that there IS a blue winter savory. I grow both, and they look fairly similar, though the former is more upright. No we couldn't find it either but hyssop was further on and this was a much more 'thyme' type growth I even suggested it could be a form of prostrate rosemary at the time. Maybe it was hyssop in an unfamiliar form? Janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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Caring for winter savory
In article , Frederick Williams
writes Mine is Satureja montana and will (let's hope) have a rose-purple flower. This was blue like er, um, lithodora, Much bluer than Rosemary. I am going to the herb nursery at Sonning Common tomorrow so hopefully they can tell us. i think i have a photo on my camera still, as well. Janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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