Choisya

Not enough sun could well be the answer Sheal. Certainly both of mine are in full sun and where something else has slightly grown across 1 of my Choisya, that part of the shrub doesn't have flowers.Sympathise when you loose a favourite Armandii. Don't know about you but at my age I'm now at the stage of thinking...mmm well ain't going to see another mature specimen if I replace what I've lost!! That said I've just planted wih some trepadation 3 new Ceanothus to replace a couple of huge specimens (about 40 years old) which didn't survive the very bad winters of 2010/11 and 2011/12. Ceanothus is somewhat borderline succssful here due to our cold winters (getting colder maybe as lost both the old ones a couple of years ago?) but thought I'd give it a go and hope for the best.

 

Nah ... realised I needed to lose weight and the fastest way to lose 2/3rd's of me was to ... "um" ... shrink my name

 

I thought you'd got fed up being called Mum, it's bad enough putting up with it from our own kids, let alone the population of GC. Mind you, mine don't call me mum anymore, I've been given nicknames.

 

Sheal, after 33 years, I am so, so used to it there was an occasion when I was in a supermarket, in a world of my own and I heard a child's voice calling: "Mum? Mum!? MUM!!" that I turned (without thinking!) and retorted: "Wait just a minute!" That's when I realised it wasn't one of mine (my children were in school)

One of my sons did take to calling me: "Dwarf-een" at one stage (the point where he realised he was taller than me), but, I soon knocked him down a peg or two

 

Disaster!

My Choisya collapsed again yesterday! I'm upset as it had progressed so well after the earlier problems during the snow. There is no root lift from the soil and the collapse is due to being top heavy. For the time being I've tied it to the fences but I'm not sure what to do now. I'd thought about staking the individual stems and then thought perhaps I should cut off some of the top branches taking away the side overhangs, this would make the weight more central.

I really don't know what to do for the best now and I don't want to lose it either. Can members help me out please with ideas.





Edit: Looking at the pictures, the Choisya fell directly towards me as I'm looking at it, if you get my meaning.

 

Thanks Armandii. I think you're right, I'll have to grit my teeth and cut it back. It's not flowered since I've had it and was hoping to see some this year.

 

I agree with Armandii - I think you have to go for it - such a shame after all that it went through during the bad weather.