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| The Garden in
March
Despite the cold and wet some perennials are sticking their heads above the soil and flowering. It is also the time for planting and propagating. Pulmonaria Mawson's Blue started flowering in early March and will continue into early summer.© |
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Anemone
blanda is commonly called the wind flower. It has certainly been at home
this month. It increases by expanding corms and by self seeding. Last
years' seed is now germinating near the parent plants |
Euphorbia
characias is best grown in a sheltered position because storms can rock
the "flower" laiden plants out of the soil. We grow it up
against the east-facing front of our house; out of the strong North
Westerlies of March. |
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Now is the best time to divide Heleniums.
Clumps can be forked right out of the ground and depending on the variety
that can be broken up into individual plantlets or small groups like
Helenium Goldfuchs on the right.
After a wet spring the old, dead stems are starting to rot off and the new plants begin to detach themselves from them as they grow their own roots. Some will immediately separate on digging up. Others require gently breaking off the old stem. Either replant in the ground, protect from slugs and water well or pot up in 9cm pots in a good compost mix (we use a mix of multipurpose compost, potting bark and potting grit. These plants will flower well this year. |
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March
is said to "come in like a lion and go out like a lamb". This
year it came in like a lion and carried on roaring right through.