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Thu, Apr 15, 10 at 10:41
| Hi, Anyone out there? I need an answer to a problem. I know you can't help with my main issue but maybe someone will know if what I have done hasn't killed my new hypericums. I bought two last fall in one gallon plastic pots from Lowes. I didn't get them into the ground and had them on a concrete slab in a protected corner on the north side of the house. They don't look so hot and I am wondering if I have killed them as I don't know what a normal look is for them this time of yuuear in south central Michigan. Any help is appreciated.
Hope your weather is a fine as ours is today. It is perfect. Daff's in full bloomm and are beautiful. Star magnolia is gorgeous and the other mag's and rhododendron's are ready to pop. I pulled some rhubarb this morning and it is baking now and smells so good! Gonna have to go out so I can't smell it!! Thanks and enjoy your piece of heaven, Mike |
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| Mike, so you are saying that they stayed outside above the ground on the north side of the house through the winter in Michigan? My first guess would be that they are toast. ANY plant held over winter in a one gallon in Michigan should have been "healed in" or buried, pot and all, on a PROTECTED side of the house (east or south). With no pix, I vote dead. If not, I want a cutting of this hypericum to plant patent! We can be rich! hortster |
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| I have 2 types of Hypericum, but I don't recall their cultivar names. The variety with the big flowers, which I also got at Lowes, dies back to the ground each winter & reliably re-sprouts each spring. So far, I only see a few small shoots - but by June I'm sure I'll have 3 healthy shrubs at least 3' high & wide. I'd just cut them back, have faith & be patient. I paid too much for a shrub last year, then stupidly left it on the patio for a couple weeks around a corner. One of my dogs decided to water it for me, repeatedly, and I thought it was dead. Last fall I dumped the root ball behind the garage, west exposure, & this spring discovered it sprouting like crazy. Ya never know what will survive neglect... |
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