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Posted by Carole_NSW Lake Macquarie (My Page) on Wed, Oct 22, 03 at 4:42
| Is it worth letting them die back after first flowering for the following year?? I think I've heard they generally either won't flower a second year ...or that the flowering is significantly reduced. |
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RE: Ranunculus & Anemones
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| Malcolm Campbell from GA said to lift them after they did down and replant. If i can find them, I will! Certainly for anemones but prob for both. |
RE: Ranunculus & Anemones
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- Posted by Andy_SA South Australia (My Page) on
Thu, Oct 23, 03 at 5:36
| My anemones from last year have come to nought, but my ranunculas are actually looking a whole lot better. I dead-head when necessary, and give fertiliser... Apart from that, haven't a clue! |
RE: Ranunculus & Anemones
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hi all i always leave my ranunculus and anemones in the ground to no ill effect maybe i am just lucky but have done this for years and they seem to come up year after year though most of the books i have read all say to lift them but i have to many and doubt if i could find them as we are on 5 acres and have about an acre of garden around the house
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beverley |
RE: Ranunculus & Anemones
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It really depends on the soil, and whether you are cutting them back or not. They are like bulbs, in that they take in nutrient for next year, from the leaves and stalks, so if you cut them back after blooming, you starve them. If the soil is good, they will have taken in plenty of nutrient and increased well and produced fat little corms for next year. If they get too wet between end of bloom and next season, they may rot in the groudn, but if the soil is weel drained they will be OK. Mine have come up thicker than last year and are blooming now.
If your soil is poor, then they will grow the first year, depleting the nutrient in the corm, and will not produce extra corms or nice fat corms for next season.
The same applies to most bulbs. I had a friend who planted fat daffodil bulbs in her impoverished soil, and said pretty much "see how well they do in this soil" Of course they didn't bloom the following year, they barely even put up foliage.
Cheers, Jan |
RE: Ranunculus & Anemones
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| Thanks everyone for your input - I had just been "dead-heading" as flowers finished (then realised the seed pods were so attractive and I should've left them on) ...will leave remainder of plants to die down and see what happens next year. Have fertilized well etc. |
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