Posted by Chris Hogg on March 3, 2010, 9:04 am
We have several clumps of dierama pulcherrimum in the garden, ranging
in colour from silvery pink to deepest purple (makes 'blackbird' look
positively anaemic!). Inevitably they become a bit scruffy over the
years, with old dead leaves interspersed with the younger green ones.
As I can't be bothered to tease out the dead leaves individually, over
the next few weeks I plan to cut all the foliage right back, but my
wife says this will stop them flowering this year.
Comments please.
--
Chris
Gardening in West Cornwall overlooking the sea.
Mild, but very exposed to salt gales
E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net
Posted by Charlie Pridham on March 3, 2010, 11:02 am
says...
> We have several clumps of dierama pulcherrimum in the garden, ranging
> in colour from silvery pink to deepest purple (makes 'blackbird' look
> positively anaemic!). Inevitably they become a bit scruffy over the
> years, with old dead leaves interspersed with the younger green ones.
> As I can't be bothered to tease out the dead leaves individually, over
> the next few weeks I plan to cut all the foliage right back, but my
> wife says this will stop them flowering this year.
>
> Comments please.
>
>
They certainly wont like it, faced with the same dilemma here my solution
was to get Liz to do it :~)
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea
Posted by Jennifer Sparkes on March 4, 2010, 4:28 pm
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> They certainly wont like it, faced with the same dilemma here my solution
> was to get Liz to do it :~)
Liz, my deepest sympathy and understanding ...
Jennifer
Posted by Jeff Layman on March 4, 2010, 1:03 pm
> We have several clumps of dierama pulcherrimum in the garden, ranging
> in colour from silvery pink to deepest purple (makes 'blackbird' look
> positively anaemic!). Inevitably they become a bit scruffy over the
> years, with old dead leaves interspersed with the younger green ones.
> As I can't be bothered to tease out the dead leaves individually, over
> the next few weeks I plan to cut all the foliage right back, but my
> wife says this will stop them flowering this year.
> Comments please.
> --
> Chris
> Gardening in West Cornwall overlooking the sea.
> Mild, but very exposed to salt gales
I would have thought that it's next year's flowers which will suffer, as
this years flower buds should have already been formed, but I could be
wrong.
--
Jeff
Posted by Chris Hogg on March 5, 2010, 1:09 pm
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 18:03:20 -0000, "Jeff Layman"
>> We have several clumps of dierama pulcherrimum in the garden, ranging
>> in colour from silvery pink to deepest purple (makes 'blackbird' look
>> positively anaemic!). Inevitably they become a bit scruffy over the
>> years, with old dead leaves interspersed with the younger green ones.
>> As I can't be bothered to tease out the dead leaves individually, over
>> the next few weeks I plan to cut all the foliage right back, but my
>> wife says this will stop them flowering this year.
>>
>> Comments please.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> Gardening in West Cornwall overlooking the sea.
>> Mild, but very exposed to salt gales
>>
>I would have thought that it's next year's flowers which will suffer, as
>this years flower buds should have already been formed, but I could be
>wrong.
I was rather hoping that, like gladioli and crocosmia, the 'energy'
for this year's flowers would be stored in the bulb, so that cutting
them back wouldn't stop them flowering. But in view of Charlie's
comments, I think I'll leave them alone, otherwise I risk being in the
dog house all summer!
--
Chris
Gardening in West Cornwall overlooking the sea.
Mild, but very exposed to salt gales
E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net
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> in colour from silvery pink to deepest purple (makes 'blackbird' look
> positively anaemic!). Inevitably they become a bit scruffy over the
> years, with old dead leaves interspersed with the younger green ones.
> As I can't be bothered to tease out the dead leaves individually, over
> the next few weeks I plan to cut all the foliage right back, but my
> wife says this will stop them flowering this year.
>
> Comments please.
>
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