buds. This will hopefully produce lots for flowers for next year. You can distinguish the flowering buds quite easily from the flattened growth buds, which will give an indication to how well it will flower next season.
The Wisteria is finally flowering, there are not many flowers but this may be because I did not prune in January/February. The next pruning should be done in July/August. You prune back to six buds in July to let light into the plant, this then hardens the wood forming flowering buds for next year. Then in the winter January time I will prune back to a further 2-3
buds. This will hopefully produce lots for flowers for next year. You can distinguish the flowering buds quite easily from the flattened growth buds, which will give an indication to how well it will flower next season.
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Impatiens glandulifera also known as: Himalayan balsam, Indian balsam, jumping jack, policeman's helmet When we moved into The Drock in September last year, the garden was full of this large pink flowering plant, but no-one could tell me what it was. I did search the gardening books and internet but came up with a blank. This month it has started to come up in the area I have named The Allotment, for obvious reason. I thought I'd let it grow until I could identify it. The lovely people of the Facebook page I follow did just that with this photo. They and other websites tell me it is a huge invasive weed, up there with the Japanese knotweed. Argh!!!!! so I guess the first job will be to start pulling it out before it flowers again. I don't think it will be a weed I ever get rid of because of the position of where we live. I also thought it was quite a pretty plant if not a bit leggy, so I may let it grow around The Drock. It's been a day of learning all about Comfrey, it all started when I was trying to identify a plant that I had long thought belonged to the forgetmenot family: However when I looked it up in my wild flower book I discovered that it is actually Petaglottis sempervirens Green Alkanet, which belongs to the Borage family.
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