trailing lobelia heads are mostly dead.

Goood evening,
can anyone help me? My lobelias are mostly dead, and few blossoming. I have trimmed the lobelia, and watering daily, and in the evening due to hot weather, but only when soil is slightly wet. Also strands of dead lobelias from flower to its root have dried out like straw.


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Sorry I can't help you Michell.
All I can say is that maybe it is a watering problem. Some people think they have watered when they have sprinkled half a can of water about the place. My husband doles the stuff out as if it was rationed.
If you're convinced it's not a water problem the only other thing I can suggest is I don't think it likes an acid soil. It maybe doesn't need too alkaline, but does seem to like to grow beside a wall or a path, maybe just gets a little bit of lime from the cement.
Just a fussy plant Michel.
It's doing great here for me, but wouldn't grow in my last garden at all.
Hope it will pep up for you.

 

In the baskets, I am having problems. I am using water cannister, can that over water plants? How much water, should it be wet, and soaking into the soil into roots? I am wondering if I am over watering them.

 

I've always found lobelia tends to run out of steam around this time of the year.
Even more so in hot dry years.
Usually by now the other plants have taken over in the basket or container and its just a case of cutting it back.

 

Gardeners,

Thankyou! :ntwrth:

 

I think it's like I said Michell.
Lobelia can be fussy beyond reason(fikey to me).
If it decides to grow it will go mad, and if not, for no reason you can see, it will shrivel and die.
As I said, in my last garden it wouldn't grow no matter what I did, in this garden it just goes mad.
Don't beat yourself up about it. If it won't grow it won't grow. Just find something that will.