Just lately I have been wondering what is up with my New Zealand Flax. The leaves have been going yellow and to be honest he did not look very alive! I started to wonder if he had died on me during the winter. Due to all the cold weather we have had in the Uk.
So I decided to do some re-search just to re-fresh what I know about the NZ Flax... I learnt that due to the very cold weather we had last winter a lot of NZ flax's was and have die off!
I also read how some NZ Flax's have never flowered, due to our weather. To think of it I can only remember two times when My NZ Flax as flowered!
Anyway. . . I decided to tackle the NZ flax on my day off. Which was last Bank Holiday Monday just gone. So once I got up and had my breakfast off out in the garden I went..
Firstly I had to move the Rhododendron over and some of the other pots to, get to the flax.
Then I had fun moving the pot that the flax was in. Once I got the pot onto the floor, I got out the garden string to tie the leaves up! So I could get down to the soil level and get the old leaves and horrible rotting mass, which had to go...
So once I got rited of the rotting mass of stuff out of the way. I could now see how the NZ flax was. To my surprise I have got about nine plant's in the pot. So after I tidyed the leaves up,
I re-moved the green safeways box that the plant use to sit on, due it the box had broken.
Don't worry I am going to re-use the box some how. Once I got the box out of the way I pushed the flax up into the corner. Then I put newish soil on top to cover up the roots.
What I found was the NZ Flax I bought many years ago have die. It seem to be all the baby plant's (what was) were growing in the the rotting mass of stuff. So that is why I put newish soil on top. Then I put lil pebbles on top, for now!
I know I have mention it before about working on sorting out the corner. But I am working out what to do with it! I want to down size the pot the NZ flax is in, I also would love to have a palm in the garden....Kind of like one of them on Weymouth seafront. (I May end up doing a post on Weymouth seafront palms.) Anyway what ever happens I will let you all know. What I decided to do.. ..
Please feel free to reply, let me know what you think?
So I decided to do some re-search just to re-fresh what I know about the NZ Flax... I learnt that due to the very cold weather we had last winter a lot of NZ flax's was and have die off!
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| R.I.P: Other NZ Flax's |
I also read how some NZ Flax's have never flowered, due to our weather. To think of it I can only remember two times when My NZ Flax as flowered!
Anyway. . . I decided to tackle the NZ flax on my day off. Which was last Bank Holiday Monday just gone. So once I got up and had my breakfast off out in the garden I went..
Firstly I had to move the Rhododendron over and some of the other pots to, get to the flax.
Then I had fun moving the pot that the flax was in. Once I got the pot onto the floor, I got out the garden string to tie the leaves up! So I could get down to the soil level and get the old leaves and horrible rotting mass, which had to go...
So once I got rited of the rotting mass of stuff out of the way. I could now see how the NZ flax was. To my surprise I have got about nine plant's in the pot. So after I tidyed the leaves up,
I re-moved the green safeways box that the plant use to sit on, due it the box had broken.
Don't worry I am going to re-use the box some how. Once I got the box out of the way I pushed the flax up into the corner. Then I put newish soil on top to cover up the roots.
What I found was the NZ Flax I bought many years ago have die. It seem to be all the baby plant's (what was) were growing in the the rotting mass of stuff. So that is why I put newish soil on top. Then I put lil pebbles on top, for now!
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| Couldn't get all the big leaves in picture! |
I know I have mention it before about working on sorting out the corner. But I am working out what to do with it! I want to down size the pot the NZ flax is in, I also would love to have a palm in the garden....Kind of like one of them on Weymouth seafront. (I May end up doing a post on Weymouth seafront palms.) Anyway what ever happens I will let you all know. What I decided to do.. ..
Please feel free to reply, let me know what you think?
The plain green Phormiums like yours are the toughest of the lot. Glad it has produced lots of off sets!
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