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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: tonybloke on February 25, 2009, 17:10:41

Title: a bit of colour on a spring day
Post by: tonybloke on February 25, 2009, 17:10:41

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today in the college greenhouse. (one of my plants from home, needed for a display garden)

Title: Re: a bit of colour on a spring day
Post by: shirlton on February 25, 2009, 17:31:45

Wow I hope mine have survived the winter. They are in the cold GH. Do you have to cut them down or just leave them to get on with it

Title: Re: a bit of colour on a spring day
Post by: tonybloke on February 25, 2009, 17:53:46

took them into college in nov just b4 first frosts, kept 'em fairly dry, now they had a water and feed, bingo!
I don't think you have to cut them down, but ask ACE, he the man who can with brugmansia!

Title: Re: a bit of colour on a spring day
Post by: ACE on February 25, 2009, 18:28:49

I only cut ours back if the tips go 'soggy' Then only back just above a leaf, joint or bud. I have seen them grown as trees in Spain,  but with our climate they do not get very tall, mainly because the tips get frostbite.

Title: Re: a bit of colour on a spring day
Post by: flossy on February 25, 2009, 18:46:52

   lovely, knew Ace would grow a something  ' mansia ',  When I get my green

   house !   :-\

   All I have to show at home [ due to being devoted to lottie ]  are a nice little gathering

   of primroses and some bluebells [ English ]  that got buried !

   Will have to turn things around.       ::)

   floss xxx

Title: Re: a bit of colour on a spring day
Post by: shirlton on February 25, 2009, 19:00:42

Thanks Ace