Marjoram/oregonon

Does anone have any tips for establishing Marjoram as a perrenial?

I'm in London, on neutral clayy soil. The spot I want to use is sunny, but not against a wal.

What varieties to use? How to prepare the grounf? Whn to plant?

I thought of just improving the drainage with grit and laying a mulch of gravel.

 

I have marjoram in a container and have had for a few years. If it grows here it will grow in London OK. It's hardy. Just enrich the soil and feed it now and again. You mentioned Oregano in your title I have that in a container. The fresh oregan doesn't have the same flavour as the dried IMHO.

 

I find with herbs they do better planted out than in a pot, but they still get a bit woody after a couple of years. I've taken replacements of oregano by layering and dividing as well.

 

Hi Wetfloor,


I have two types of marjoram which do very well where I am.

They are in exactly the soil you seem to have-clay and in full sun. I would plant them in mid spring, and prune them down to about 2 inches from the ground-but they will sprawl out (very much in the shape and manner of helichrysum does), so it depends how much room you want them to take up. They will go like the clappers-nearly as vigorous as lemon balm. I have found that if you cut them down each year to about a third of the new growth yearly they won`t go woody-maybe it`s different elsewhere, but that is what works for me.

As far as which ones-one is Golden Marjoram-I bought it from a local nursery, and the other was given to me and described as Wild Marjoram. They have both done very well planted straight in the soil and fed in spring each year.

I grow mine for the flowers and the scent as I pass around the garden. It`ll do well where you are.

Good Luck.

 

I too am in London, I grow oregano in (large) pots and although I did plan to overwinter them in the greenhouse last year, I missed a pot but it survived the winter and flourished spring/summer!

We did have an exceptionally mild winter though and all my herbs will/are taking up residence in the greenhouse this winter.

 

I don`t know that it won`t survive the winter abyway. Mine is in the soil and I haven`t ever brought it in-it does fine and flourishes. Your winters in London are milder anyway.