My poor plants

Hello everyone! Im Ms Rich. Im new to gardening and dont really know what im doing,
would you be so kind to help me out with afew questions below, sorry if any of these are lauaghable questions.

I have a purple Oxalis that i bought in july and put in the ground in my front garden. It did really well : ) I dug it up in December and put it in a pot to bring inside and stopped watering it so that it goes dormant. Can i leave it unwatered and dead looking untill March? Then i was hoping to re water and bring it back to life to go back in the front garden. Is this ok? Or even possible?

One more question : ) I bought a passion flower clematis in August i think and put that in the front garden, well it is looking very sorry and i think its dead, am i suppsed to cut it back to the ground? will it regrow or have i killed it?

Thank you all

Rich.

 

Welcome to Gardeners Corner

Not my department, but I think @ARMANDII might be able to help there

 

Hi

The 3 plants you mention sound normal to me as clematis and passion flower loose the leaves over winter , Oxalis needs to back in the garden as its a perennial plant (outdoors) and will re-grow in the spring

do you know the name of the clematis , plus the passion flower may need some protection if we get a lot of frosts etc

Spruce

 

Thank you

So i should have left the oxalis outside, should i water it and put it outside now in its pot?
The passion flower is out in the open border, how should i protect it? its growing up the wall (or dying gainst it) it is the common one i guess. The clematis is in a pot in the back garden, it has purple flowers but i do not know the name of that either.

Im not doing very well here am I. I just dont want them to die, I would feel alittle sad about it.

Thank you for your help here.

Rich.

 

I would put the oxalis outside next to the wall of the house to give it some protection have you holes in the bottom of the pot ? as it will need to drain freely, you can leave in the pot or plant it out in the spring.

Can you plant the clematis out now ?? you need to plant it deeper than the pot size so all of the stems are buried two three inches deeper .

With passion plant , I would cover the area around the plant about two inches deep with bark chippings which will protect the roots from the winter and will re-shoot in late spring if the top part gets killed off, roughly 24 in in total area

What part of the UK are you region

Spruce

 

Hallo Ms Rich,
to Gardeners Corner. Is this the plant that you have?
Oxalis Triangularis "Cupido"?

It will come back again next year. Have you had a look at what's going on under the soil?

There should be little tubers like these. They are the plant's offspring for next year. It's best to gently prise them from the mother plant and pot them on - about 1/2" underground in a new 3 " pot of multi purpose compost( about 4 tubers), dampen the soil and keep it somewhere frost free - a windowsill perhaps?. In a month or so you will see new stems emerging which will grow on into a new plant. There maybe enough to create more than one pot - good luck,
Jenny namaste

 

You're doing just great! You've come to the right place and you are asking the right questions

So, to GC

Some of our members have asked some relevant questions (much depends on where we live, the soil we have, the climate of a particular region etc ). The sooner you are able to give a little bit more information, the more accurate the answers will be to your query

Personally, I've lost a few plants over time because I didn't have the right information/knowledge/experience/situation/soil, if the very worst happens and you should lose a plant or two, do not despair: it's all part of the learning curve (and we all have to begin somewhere )

 

Thank you all for your replies, im in Harlow, Essex my soil type is alkaline??!! I belive.

Thank you jenny i will split them tomorrow to make more plants, water and put outside and hope they all do ok : )

Thank you all for the warm welcome

 

Hi everybody

I put the oxalis back outside and forgot about it. 3 weeks later nothing happened. I know this was probably normal as it was cold but I panicked nd bought them inside. I have a few shoots now. I think it's going to make it : ) .

Looked at my passion flower this morning I do think it's dead. It's just dry dead twigs up a wall. Should I still it it back. And what months?

Rich

 

*cut it back.