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Wallflowers
Hi there,
Last autumn I planted wallflowers for the first time & they put on a great late spring show but they're on their way out now. Are wallflowers annuals? Do I just rip them off now or is it worth leaving them for another season? Many thanks |
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"Scully" wrote in message ... Hi there, Last autumn I planted wallflowers for the first time & they put on a great late spring show but they're on their way out now. Are wallflowers annuals? Do I just rip them off now or is it worth leaving them for another season? Many thanks Wallflowers are really perennials but are treated as annuals as they get leggy and aren't as good in their first flowering. HTH L |
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In article , Zizz
writes "Scully" wrote in message ... Hi there, Last autumn I planted wallflowers for the first time & they put on a great late spring show but they're on their way out now. Are wallflowers annuals? Do I just rip them off now or is it worth leaving them for another season? Many thanks Wallflowers are really perennials but are treated as annuals as they get leggy and aren't as good in their first flowering. But if you trim them back now to a sideshoot fairly low down on the stem, they will not be as leggy, and will come back well next year. I can't be bothered with re-sowing every year, and my current crop of wallflowers are at least 5 years old. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
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On Sat, 31 May 2003 23:39:14 +0100, Kay Easton
wrote: In article , Zizz writes "Scully" wrote in message ... Hi there, Last autumn I planted wallflowers for the first time & they put on a great late spring show but they're on their way out now. Are wallflowers annuals? Do I just rip them off now or is it worth leaving them for another season? Many thanks Wallflowers are really perennials but are treated as annuals as they get leggy and aren't as good in their first flowering. But if you trim them back now to a sideshoot fairly low down on the stem, they will not be as leggy, and will come back well next year. I can't be bothered with re-sowing every year, and my current crop of wallflowers are at least 5 years old. That sounds like a good plan for wallflowers especially as I have only just discovered (RHS) that, like roses, you shouldn't plant wallflowers where there were wallflowers before. I have one or two with particularly nice colouring and will have a go at taking some softwood cuttings of these (probably round about now would be a good idea - I can see plenty of new side shoots emerging as the flowering stems die and dry). Hussein Grow a little garden spam block - for real addy, reverse letters of second level domain. |
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