Hi Kristen, it sounds like you may not have M.sikkimensis gigantea from Europalms because I think they all have that dark variegation on them! Could it be you have the “Darjeeling giant”?
Where was your seed from.
Palmer wrote:Hi Kristen, it sounds like you may not have M.sikkimensis gigantea from Europalms because I think they all have that dark variegation on them! Could it be you have the “Darjeeling giant”?
Where was your seed from.
The first year I grew Sikkimensis it got throught the winter ok and was amazingly big, but for the last 2 years it was cut down to the ground, coming up strong the next year, even from plants that were only 2-3 yrs old. However it must have only got to 6ft in a year?
I started digging them up to overwinter them the way that I did on Gardeners World last year and it worked fine for the 2 that I did that way, this year I have done it for about 6 so we shall see
Ian I can see your point about the rot, but I think the big difference is that I store them in a covered side passage next to the house, not my greenhouse (putting it in the greenhouse was for the magic of tv). The side passage is relatively open to the elements and ensures a very good flow of air which dries stuff out and certainly last year the leaves I tied to the top were completly dried out, as was the soil by spring. Indeed I almost killed an Echinea I have out there as it was almost dead from drought last week.
