Plug plants for the allotment arrive at F&F HQ.
I’m trialling plants from Plant Me Now over the next few months, and the first consignment arrived this week. Plant Me Now has a very smart website where you can order plants online, and they’ve sent me two boxes of Argyranthemums – A. ‘Madeira Crested Pink’ and A. ‘Madeira Crested Yellow’. They arrived in two shiny-looking plug trays:
The plug plants have a good root system which isn’t pot-bound, which is important as pot-bound plugs don’t develop nearly as well:
These are perennial flowers, and will be going up to the allotment to decorate the raspberry beds. They’re good for butterflies, which is good, and they look pretty, which is also a very good thing. One of my aims for this year is to improve the biodiversity and good looks of the allotment.
But for the time being, it’s a bit too chilly to plant them out. I’ll be aiming to put these plants in the ground by the end of March, and so I’ve planted the plugs in little terracotta pots so they can grow away over the next few weeks before moving to their permanent homes.
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L MUNTON
Argyranthemums – A. ‘Madeira Crested Pink’ and A. ‘Madeira Crested Yellow’. You refer to these as perennials above when in fact they are sold as annuals
on the Plantmenow website. Would be lovely if they came back each year!
Linda
They look lovely and I’m sure their well do a grand job when planted out in their are planted next to your raspberry’s
have a great weekend
F&F
Hi L MUNTON, I’m afraid I don’t have control over what Plant Me Now write on their site, but Argyranthemums are indeed perennials. Hope that helps.
Nell Jean
Lovely plants. We call them Marguerites. Half-hardy perennials which means in your climate and mine, they are perennials. In the frozen north, they are sold as annuals because they do not survive the winter but they are not true annuals, blooming for a season and naturally dying.
If they are sold as annuals, nobody gets upset if they only last a single season.