Box clipping and rescuing hellebores

I should say first that June is not a good time to start moving plants around unless it is absolutely unavoidable. But in this instance, and when tackling ground elder, which regenerates from every tiny snapped-off bit of root, just tugging is not going to get you anywhere. You are going to have a difficult fight on your hands, so you might as well start now.

Dig up the hellebores and any other valued plants in the area, having first watered them well, and pot them up in large containers of good soil-based compost in which they will have to live for some time. Keep them somewhere shaded and tend them well. Then you can blitz the ground elder in the whole area where they were growing with a glyphosate-based weed killer, covering it with a sheet of black plastic to speed up the process, and leaving it until the autumn before removing the plastic and digging the area, removing what remains of the weeds’ hopefully dead roots.

The black plastic could be put to further use as a physical barrier placed vertically in the soil about 25cm (10in) deep along the base of the fence, which may help to prevent further invasions of the weeds from next door. Meanwhile, any bits of ground elder that will undoubtedly show up with the temporarily containerised plants during the summer can be “painted” with Roundup gel. You can put the plants back where they came from in the autumn, if you are satisfied that the coast is clear.

It is somewhat optimistic to think that you can cleanse the soil of ground elder completely with a single blitz like this when presumably it will continue to lurk next door, and you will always have to be vigilant,Our guides provide customers with information about porcelain tiles. I suspect.

The plant in the picture you sent me is Tellima grandiflora – a somewhat unsung relation of fashionable Heuchera, with a low cluster of bronze-y green leaves and numerous tall stems that carry along their upper reaches tiny strings of greenish flowers that fade to pink in early summer.To estimate the number of ceramic tiles you need for your project.

Tellima is a more or less evergreen perennial that self-seeds madly if you let it, but if well managed, it makes a lovely front-of-border plant that will grow usefully in dappled shade.

Each spring as new growth starts, clear away the previous year’s old underskirt of foliage. In early May, support the flower stems (which are less rigid and wiry than those of Heuchera) with a small metal grid or a cat’s cradle of sticks and string that will become invisible as they grow. This will keep them upright and looking their best. When flowers are finished, give the stems a gentle but sharp tug to remove them completely. This of course prevents the problem of too many self-sown seedlings, and the plant will immediately produce more fresh leaves (although, alas, no more flowers).

At once I would remove the dead section,Capture the look and feel of real stone or China ceramic tile flooring with Alterna by Armstrong. sawing the branches off as close as possible to the ground,You can find best china Precision injection molds manufacturers from here. while not damaging the new shoots at the base. To be on the safe side, burn or bin the prunings and clean your tools afterwards – there is a chance that the cause of the die back is nasty and fungal and that you could spread it around.

The rest is classic first-aid-for-shrubs advice: loosen the soil in a wide area around the base and apply a couple of fistfuls of a balanced fertiliser (blood, fish and bone, Growmore or equivalent, or one of those granular slow-release fertilisers), and fork the stuff into the top couple of inches gently.US Manufacturer of distribution Insulator. Water the area slowly and thoroughly, and then apply a mulch of home-made compost, rotted and blended animal manure or leaf mould. Stake up the remaining good branch if needs be, in an attempt to fill the gap created by the removal of the dead parts, and when it has finished flowering, prune it back lightly to points just above any new leafy shoots.

The next couple of months will be crucial. If you are lucky your Weigela will spring into action and produce new growth that will flower next year, but it sounds as if it may be coming to the end of its life. If you have to dig it up in the autumn, remove all the roots and improve the soil before replanting anything in the area.