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

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?

Bear in mind that you are not actually posting to Garden Banter. They are
merely providing a front end to view the usenet group of uk.rec.gardening
which is a text only form of communication. If you want us all to see your
picture please put it on a photo hosting site and put the link in your
post.
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Phil Cook

hi, i didnt see the pics but i can say that some varieties of daisies die back in winter and leave sticks, dead stalks, where they were, cut these sticks to about four inches and wait, very soon you should see the new daisies growing,, good luck.... spinksy

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.