Re: perennial expertise
Isabelle Hayes wrote:
>
> I recently gave myself a present: The Well-Tended Perennial Garden, by
> Aust-Sabato;
>
> there's lots of good advice in there, especially about cutting back plants
> when they first bloom, so that one gets a lower height in the long run, but
> a fuller and stronger plant; this applies to hollyhocks, and lots of others;
>
> I learned something very valuable last season, when a cosmo was bent over in
> a windstorm, but didn't break, and then all along the horizontal stem grew
> more vertical plants (and flowers eventually);
>
> so next year I intend to try to get this to happen with all tall stalked plants.
>
> Isabelle Hayes
This happened to me, and when the stem started to set roots, I just cut
it into pieces and had a lot more plants. I took the pieces of stems and
buried the roots and had about a foot tall plant with flowers in a
couple more weeks.
Cosmos are pretty, but with the heavy wind and rain like to topple
over.
Rita
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