Some people have all the luck..................

[LONGK]

................and for once it was me!

I moved house last year and space issues in the autumn meant that a few tough choices had to be made. Brugmansia sanguinea was a plant that I had long admired and the crap summer last year resulted in great success at the first attempt! So I "gave it away" last autumn, but it never got collected so it sat there all winter fully exposed. I finally got around to that part of the garden a few days ago (riddled with Japanese anenomes) and when I went to chuck it in the compost I saw this.....................



This is what the whole thing looks like...................



Not only that, but here is the larger of the two Cantua buxifolia that I had. It was placed under shelter outdoors for the winter and it survived!



The cutting in the cold greenhouse died.

[Chrisg]

It's great when things you think you lost come back from the root. I found my brugs would do it for a couple of years but it took too much out of them and they got more feeble every year.

[AndyC]

Nice one. Reminds me of my Butia eriospatha that was assumed dead after a bad winter, chucked by the compost heap, started to produce a new spear so was repotted and spend two years in the polytunnel recovering. It is now planted out again ready for next winters bashing.

[LONGK]

It's great when things you think you lost come back from the root. I found my brugs would do it for a couple of years but it took too much out of them and they got more feeble every year.

It'll get more love this winter!

[charlie]

Nice one. Reminds me of my Butia eriospatha that was assumed dead after a bad winter, chucked by the compost heap, started to produce a new spear so was repotted and spend two years in the polytunnel recovering. It is now planted out again ready for next winters bashing.

I thought throwing things onto the compost heap to rejuvenate them was a recognized horticultural technique! :)

[LONGK]

Nice one. Reminds me of my Butia eriospatha that was assumed dead after a bad winter, chucked by the compost heap, started to produce a new spear so was repotted and spend two years in the polytunnel recovering. It is now planted out again ready for next winters bashing.

I thought throwing things onto the compost heap to rejuvenate them was a recognized horticultural technique! :)

By far the easiest way to germinate Honey Mangos!