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?
