📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!

Identifying plants & how to look after them

Options
2»

Comments

  • GreenBucket24
    GreenBucket24 Posts: 45 Forumite
    10 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited 26 March 2024 at 1:54PM
    Kildare

    Thanks! With the hedge it curves around the house so that section is due south and lots of sun whilst part of it is west facing. Hopefully it should grow back in. It’s so fast growing and I have to keep it back off the public path, it’s still very bushy but I don’t want to cut it so hard that it’s either bald or it doesn’t recover!
    Eleagnus doesn’t bounce back from a hard prune as readily as something like privet, so see how it goes. But generally it’s a good idea to taper hedges, or they tend to bush out at the top and the lower parts then die back.  
    @Kildare,  You might like to put some compost around the base of the plant that is getting bald, and give a feed. I use Liquid Miracle Grow for feeding and compost mulch for plants that are a bit strained. Give a regular watering weekly ... hopefully it will come back.
    "My gardening illustrates my artistic passion with plants" - GreenBucket24
Meet your Ambassadors

🚀 Getting Started

Hi new member!

Our Getting Started Guide will help you get the most out of the Forum

Categories

  • All Categories
  • 351K Banking & Borrowing
  • 253.1K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
  • 453.6K Spending & Discounts
  • 244.1K Work, Benefits & Business
  • 599K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
  • 177K Life & Family
  • 257.4K Travel & Transport
  • 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
  • 16.1K Discuss & Feedback
  • 37.6K Read-Only Boards

Is this how you want to be seen?

We see you are using a default avatar. It takes only a few seconds to pick a picture.