Nerines
plant pauper
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I have some Nerines that are of huge sentimental value and I really don't want to lose them. Is there anything I can do now to make sure they're in good nick through the Winter? I only have six flowers and I planted two large clumps last year.
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I don't do anything but mine are close to the south side of the house
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks nut. They were a gift and I didn't really know what to do with them so I just shoved them in willy nilly and I thought maybe they were a bit high. Why did my post go all funny?
They like a summer baking and they don't like to be buried very deeply. That's the extent of my knowledge
and someone may tell me that's wrong
In the sticks near Peterborough
I am , as ever, agreeing with nut.
Plant too deep is the big no no.
They like their "noses" just above the ground in as hot a position as you can provide.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Sounds like you sunbathing Hosta
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dunno where I'm going to get them baked but it's most certainly not where they are at the moment. Looks like they're moving then.....!
Thanks all.
I can't grow them outside here, they just rot and disappear, mine are all in pots, brought into the greenhouse for the winter, and put outside around July.
They were out last Winter so maybe that's why they're "not doing". I'll find a pot (I know just the one) and move them in when they finish flowering. I'm on boggyish ground and quite high up so I won't take any chances.