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Overwintering small pot/hanging basket fuchsia advice please
On 24/08/2017 10:01, Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article , Jeff Layman wrote: There is no chance of cold in the UK (even in north Scotland) killing a Wisteria. It is much more likely that something else killed it. One possibility is graft failure (which I grant may be exacerbated by frost), but even so if you leave the "dead" wisteria in the soil you will find that after a year shoots start appearing from the rootstock. Unfortunately they will be of no use for ornamental purposes! Yes, in the strict sense. But the way that frost kills many plants in the UK is by damaging the tissues and giving fungi an opening while it is above freezing but too dark and cold for the plant to start growing. It's really our wet, dark but not frozen winters that are the problem. I'll bet on something like that. Regards, Nick Maclaren. Wisteria is properly hardy and will go down to extremely low temperatures, well below anything we can get in the UK, the reason for growing them in protected places such as south and west walls is that while the actual plant is hardy the flower buds are not and emerge to early in the UK to be free of all risk of frost damage in the open. The RHS reported many (in the thousands) of Wisteria dying during those cold winters, put down to primarily "Graft Failure" caused mainly by the lack of hand eye skills of many of the grafters! it only takes a small gap which water can get in for frost to push the two parts apart (I was surprised as I would have thought deep planting would over come this) In my view Wisteria are much better off on their own roots and I only do them from cuttings -- Charlie Pridham Gardening in Cornwall www.roselandhouse.co.uk |
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