For the first time I tried Lobelia in one of the hanging baskets, when I first got it I loved the swaths of purple flowers, I went to deadhead and realised it was not that easy and it soon the plant started to look pretty messy.
The hanging basket is in full sun most of the day and the weather has been so hot and dry that it has easily dried out and some of the Lobeilia has died and the rest simply look awful.
I made a call out to twitter who said I needed to chop it back hard and give it a good soak in the cool..
Areas like this that were pretty dead, I cut back hard. To be honest unsure if it would come back again but had to give it a try.
Some other areas I could see new buds forming and did not look so dead so I snipped the dead flowers out.
I did try pulling some of the dead flowers out, as it was very time consuming using the snips and I had to be careful. But pulling them out although quicker often lead to me pulling healthy flowers and buds of the plant.
I love my baskets but I need them to either be self managing or easy to dead head and not need a huge amount of my time in looking after them. This deadheading took a loy of time and effort.
We are now a week later and the area I cut back hard buds are starting to form.
The area I simple dead headed, new buds are begining to form here as well.
My mind has not been made up by Lobelia yet and would love any adivce people have which may sway me next year to trying it again.
The hanging basket is in full sun most of the day and the weather has been so hot and dry that it has easily dried out and some of the Lobeilia has died and the rest simply look awful.
I made a call out to twitter who said I needed to chop it back hard and give it a good soak in the cool..
Areas like this that were pretty dead, I cut back hard. To be honest unsure if it would come back again but had to give it a try.
Some other areas I could see new buds forming and did not look so dead so I snipped the dead flowers out.
I love my baskets but I need them to either be self managing or easy to dead head and not need a huge amount of my time in looking after them. This deadheading took a loy of time and effort.
We are now a week later and the area I cut back hard buds are starting to form.
The area I simple dead headed, new buds are begining to form here as well.
My mind has not been made up by Lobelia yet and would love any adivce people have which may sway me next year to trying it again.
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