Cytisus battandieri
Cytisus battandieri
If you're planning to plant something new for the coming year, I'm recommending this plant. No one has posted anything about it so I'm wondering if anyone grows it.
I don't know another plant that looks like it. The flowers have the most delicious pineapple scent and the silver leaves have a velvety texture.
Flowering last spring
I don't know another plant that looks like it. The flowers have the most delicious pineapple scent and the silver leaves have a velvety texture.
Flowering last spring
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I was after one for years, but at the right price. Finally got a four foot plant at a market near Budleigh Salterton for a fiver. good laugh cramming it in the back of the motor on the way home
Love this plant but it is a snail magnet which ruins the overall look. Also its a plant I'm really struggling to propagate vegetatively .
Love this plant but it is a snail magnet which ruins the overall look. Also its a plant I'm really struggling to propagate vegetatively .
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Gary, have you tried hardwood cuttings in sharp' sand taken now? They have a rather untidy habit and can always do with a prune. If you have an established one there should be plenty of material to try.
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I've tried all the methods I know, at all times of year, plus different growing medium(I normally strike in sand) but it's one I'm failing with
it shouldn't be that difficult really, it's not like it's a plant that needs special conditions...it must be me
I hate just having one of a plant, I like spares just in case. Having said that, I suppose I should just grow some from seed again, but I'm too stubborn to give up with the cuttings!
I WILL NOT BE BEATEN BY THIS
Grev, being an evergreen, I don't class them as hardwood cuttings in the true sense. There is one more trick I haven't tried yet and thats strangulation. Basically thats tying a piece of wire tightly about half inch from the bottom of the cutting...like a form of wounding I guess. Can't even remember where I read about it, one of the old victorian garden books I think, maybe worth a shot
it shouldn't be that difficult really, it's not like it's a plant that needs special conditions...it must be me
I hate just having one of a plant, I like spares just in case. Having said that, I suppose I should just grow some from seed again, but I'm too stubborn to give up with the cuttings!
I WILL NOT BE BEATEN BY THIS
Grev, being an evergreen, I don't class them as hardwood cuttings in the true sense. There is one more trick I haven't tried yet and thats strangulation. Basically thats tying a piece of wire tightly about half inch from the bottom of the cutting...like a form of wounding I guess. Can't even remember where I read about it, one of the old victorian garden books I think, maybe worth a shot
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Great tropical flowers ✓
Nice scent ✓
Evergreen ✓
I'll be looking for one in spring!
Nice scent ✓
Evergreen ✓
I'll be looking for one in spring!
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Looks very nice! Is it hardy?
Most wanted list - Any Young Trachycarpus and/or fern.
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Hardy in free-draining poor soil, a liitle less so if you are on heavy clay. I think this will survive against any sunny wall anywhere in UK except Ben Nevis.
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I forgot they were meant to be evergreen. Mine is completely defoliated by snails. I hope it comes back to life in the spring or I will be looking for a replacement.
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I permanently have to keep slug pellets at the base of the plant (and the nearby Clianthus puniceus) or mine can turn deciduous overnight.
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Try a band of vasaline smeared all the way around the trunk, they don't like that stuffGREVILLE wrote:I permanently have to keep slug pellets at the base of the plant (and the nearby Clianthus puniceus) or mine can turn deciduous overnight.
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Your obviously not familiar with sussex slugs and snails. These things can parachute and abseil onto any plant of their choosing....they regard vaseline as a challenge, not a deterrent
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Tiny flower buds now appearing. They're much later this year. No slug problem (yet).
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I've just bought one between 2-3 ft. is it a waste of time growing it in a large pot? not sure where to put it apart from train it along a fence and shed! I only went out to buy some mint!!
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Planted. lets hope it makes it through the winter! I plan on trying to graft some bits to Laburnum root stocks in the spring. if anyone has any tips on how to do it, that would be great...
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Are you doing this to make a standard or for some benefit for the type of ground you're going to grow it in? You've now got to explain whyWilza wrote:Planted. lets hope it makes it through the winter! I plan on trying to graft some bits to Laburnum root stocks in the spring. if anyone has any tips on how to do it, that would be great...