Maybe it’s because we don’t have a hard winter to kill it back, but the salad burnet ends up being a thick mass of old leaves, which are too coarse to eat. So a month ago it was time for a hard trim. A week later it was coming back with plenty of fresh leaves. And now at four weeks there is enough to start using for salads, and it is sending up flower scapes, which I should probably trim too. The flowers are insignificant and i don’t want it…
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Last Phalaenopsis
The Phals have been rewarding this year, now that I’ve found the secret to flowering is to keep them indoors for June to August. With the oldies augmented with a couple of newbies that were too good to pass by, they’ve been giving indoor colour for many months, and should continue till Christmas. Next up will be the burgundy Oncimium, I’m guessing in January.
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