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| Well, the boys next door were playing basketball and over the fence it went right into my delphiniums. Breaking one of the stems. This is a really thick stem too. The stem is only half broken so the top is toppled over. Is there anything I can do to save this? I set it upright and took a stalk and tied it so it will stay upright. Is there a special tape, bonding agent anythign that might heal this or is it doomed? It was just beginning to bloom and not even halfway up the blooming process. What a bummer. Does anyone have any ideas such as netting or somehting to protect the plants that I can put at the top of the fence (thats not ugly) |
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| When I had ball playing kids...I had a lot of delphinium bouquets... At least the kids were having fun...it's when a wind comes up in the middle of the night and breaks them...as well as tattering the roses and messing up the filipendula that I get really annoyed! Linda C |
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- Posted by Krissiemae11 none (My Page) on Sun, Jul 6, 14 at 10:29
| Staked my broken Delphinium and used Crazy/Super Glue. Worked like a charm!! |
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| micropore surgical tape and a splint. |
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| Kids and basketballs need to be banned in civilized society. Well, at least move them all to the country 30-40 miles from the nearest neighbor. I had a rental property right next door, right next to my garden with a tiny garage and a tiny driveway. The idiot who lived there decided to put up a basketball hoop on the garage for the kids. Huge mistake! Every kid in the neighborhood was there all day long, tossing balls at that hoop which 9 times out of 10 came over my fence and into my garden. The kids climbed the fence and trampled the garden all day long to retrieve their balls. Finally some kid jumped up and tore the hoop down for no apparent reason. I hate hoops! Kevin |
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| "Finally some kid jumped up and tore the hoop down for no apparent reason." Yeah sure Kevin. That's exactly what happened, right? Some kid? For no reason? Yup. Sure. |
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| seriously, I broke my dwarf peach off at the graft union - it was hanging together by a tiny sliver of cambium. I jammed a broom stick right through the centre of the rootmass and taped the whole thing with micropore tape (breathable). A year later, the entire break had callused over and the graft was stronger than the rest of the stem. I have fixed many plants using this - at this moment, I can see a rehmannia with tape around the main stem from an enthusiastic shaking out of the laundry. Working in a minuscule garden which is crammed on every surface with plants, accidents are a daily occurrence. Splinting is not always needed but it does help to immobilise the plant as the cambium layer must be in constant unmoving contact until healing takes place - can happen in a few weeks but, in a woody plant, it can take a whole season. |
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