What's Looking Good March 2025

I'm not sure I understand the question; you have grown snowdrops in a small pot and they've done well; so why do you think they don't do well in pots.

 

Are they in large clumps?
I'm not a person who goes around feeding stuff growing in the ground but I had some like this a couple of years ago and I fed them with liquid tomato feed a couple of times before they died down, next year they flowered ok.

 

That's the easy option :-). The other solution is to lift, divide and replant.

 

On blind daffs, most of mine (in the ground) came up blind or predated last spring, so it put me off planting very many for this season. Lots of rain last year for me. None have come up yet this spring, as I decided to go with late-flowering varieties.

 

You see wonderful clumps of daffodils in flower alongside roads in many areas. They are never lifted and divided nor are they fed. So how do these daffs keep flowering so well and many of us in our gardens have blind ones?

 

I see them in passing, but I haven't had a good look so a large clump could have a fair number of blind shoots in it masked by the flowers.

 

This is interesting and may help identify a cause:

Daffodil blindness / RHS

 

I think there could be something in the breeding.
as with most of this stuff the closer to the wild plant, with no dodgy genes, the more likely they are to keep going with no help.

 

Camelia Debby:

 

Beautiful Is it a climber or just well trained?

 

Thank you. I don't really know if camelias can be climbing. Mine is sitting in the shade (the south is behind the wall) and had a few rough years when I just planted it out without considering soil type. Then I dug a pit and filled it with acidic compost and planted it back. It was given to me 7 years ago as a housewarming present, and there were several plants in the pot. So they just shape themselves growing.

 

Not in the sense of climbing like clematis or honeysuckle. You can grow them like an espalier though; generally these are tied back to supporting wires to train them, but given that camellias are fairly stiff you could probably simply keep them well pruned, especially in a sheltered spot.

 

A few Cameliias
jenny namaste

 

When I had a group of around 200 Daffodils growing blind many years ago I picked up on a suggestion to use a rose feed as they were dying back. The following year they put on an amazing display. I would try a liquid tomato feed if the problem arose now.

 

Inherited this at our allotment, beautiful!