Lost The Run Of Myself

trudiha

I have a small, dark corner in my garden that until yesterday house a small, dead hibiscus. I had decided to replace it with a Fatsia Japonica as I thought it had a chance of hovering on the brink of life and death a little longer that most plants in my garden. I'd looked at the single one that my local garden centre had on offer at the weekend but it didn't look in the full flush of health and my large dog preferes it if I buy plants for him to wee to death, rather than buying ready-dead plants, and it was £15.

Yesterday, I popped into Wilkinson's for cleaning products and was amazed and delighted to find that they had a fair sized Fatsia, in the indoor plant section, for £6. I became giddy with excitment, brought it home and planted it in the small, dark corner.

On further reading, it turns out that, as it was sold as a house plant, I should have put the it throught a 'lenghty aclimateisation' process before planting out. Digging it up and bringing it into the house every night it going to be a lot of work, short of that, is there anything I can do to ensure the plant's survival?

DaftyDuck

For the first few nights, cover it with fleece, or an old sheet, or a newspaper or two to keep the chill off it. On very cold nights, and we may have a few, chuck anything you can over it to stop it getting frostbite. If you have some leaves from trees around, you can pile them around the base of the plant as well.

It's the same plant as house or garden plant, and it will only take a few weeks to toughen up.

peter_the_piper

Put it into a big pot, put outside in the day, bring in at night. Do this for about a month, by then the nights should be warmer and you could plant it out.