It must be April because I have been tidying up the dead leaves on the Bergenias and cutting them in half and making new plants for free.
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Saturday, 3 April 2021
New Elephant Ears Plants For Free.
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Dr. Northsider should get his plant making self back in here and demonstrate the delicate operation. If you're working on the plant that I'm looking at, my question would be, you just cut off a leaf and plant it? Do you use rooting compound or just stick it in the compost.
ReplyDeleteHi Debby. Sometimes they have a baby plant with the parent plant attached. I take the plant out of the ground or pot and lie it down and cut it down the middle with my tree saw or spade or bread knife. Making sure both plants still have roots and pot them up in compost and water them. If you put Bergenias in my blog search you will see I post a similar dividing post every year. You can divide perennials Spring and Autumn. You can also take cuttings. They thrive and recover quicker the dividing way.
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They're free if you make them YP. The gardeners mathematical equation: the only way to multiply is to divide.
ReplyDeleteWe have loads in our garden. They are certainly multiplying all by themselves!
ReplyDeleteYou could always pot some up and take them to your new house JayCee? I like Bergenias because they don't die back in winter like so many other perennials do. They are also very tough and don't mind living on the coast and the salt laden rain. They're a good old garden favourite. Gertrude Jekyll loved them and use to use them for edging borders and paths... Thanks JayCee.
ReplyDeleteThought of you today. We visited lidls. I saw the little pots of spring flowers and almost photoed the beer for you but other-hlaf was hurrying me through. I didn't even buy any wine but did get some German sausages.
ReplyDeleteHi Linda. It's a great inexpensive supermarket and garden centre. We don't get many English beers. It's mainly Guinness and Heineken. The wine selection is good. They do a lovely white Portuguese wine called Portal Do Minho for under seven Euros. I saw some Bratwurst the other week. I've ate it in Vienna washed down with a pint of Dunkels. Very nice. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI thought of you today. At the local store, they had plastic pots of elephant ears bulbs. All you had to do was unwrap the planters and water them. Whoot. BTW, they wanted $19. for these.
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