Angel's Fishing Rods

Hi all

Lucky me, I've been given a pot of these (or Dieramas). I know nothing about them though, apart from they are expensive to buy. Anyone got any tips on where to grow, size, hardiness? I've googled them and the flowers looks beautiful

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Aaron, they are indeed, rare, especially the white ones. Get the ones you have somewhere frost free.

 

The friend who gave me them had then tucked away behind her greenhouse, with the pot full of weeds and grass. I think it had been there a while so its acclimatised.

 

Aaron, if you want advice, protect them. If you don`t want advice then don`t post.:gnthb:

 

Ok, point taken!

 

Oh, I just love them. But sadly checked, it is zone 7-10 for me. Enjoy them for me Aaron.
Maybe I'll consider some seeds, and start in the spring for setting pots out in the sun.

 

I'll take pics

 

Mine are in front of the living room window, I haven't protected them at all and they flowered for the first time this year (they were babies when I bought them cheap). It may be warmer here than where you are though.

 

They do need some protection over winter as David says. But I have a feeling that part of that protection needs to be good drainage. Many plants such as Penstomen are classed as not very hardy, when it is the wet that kills them as much as the cold. I have mine in pots with a mix of 50% compost and 50% sharp sand.

 

This is still in the pot that its been in for about a year. Perhaps that's what has kept it from dying?

I've no idea where to plant it though, or how big they get. Would it do all right if I replanted it in another, bigger pot?

 

i've got a few dotted around the garden, admittedly not the white ones, but I never give mine any protection over winter up here in yorkshire and i've never lost any. As far as I'm aware, my mum has a white variety, shes also in Sheffield and I doubt she gives them an overwinter protection either.

I don't doubt the other advise given is good, protecting them won't do them any harm.

 

From what I have read I would class them as border-line hardy. I have three, two from seed and one called 'Miranda' which the nursery said was hardy when I purchased it. Up here in North Yorkshire, RHS Harlow Carr has a number in a border of grasses. They appear to thrive from year to year though they are at the top of a slope and hence well drained.

Like a lot of borderline things, you may get away with it for quite some time. And then they die and you realise why they are called borderline. I would still be inclined to protect them.

I am sure you can repot them - perhaps in the spring rather than now.

 

Thanks all.