The great spell of weather continued on Wednesday with another sunny warm and dry day. Spot the difference in my afternoon picture on the plot.
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| Another sunny afternoon on the plot |
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| Cardoon plant in summer |
Our magnificent cardoon plant has been reduced to a virtually dead stump by the cold winter weather. There is just the odd sign that the stump has survived and is beginning to show signs of life. I decided it was time to remove the old dead stump and plant a new off shoot in a new location. This would leave more space in our new fruit bed and the cardoon transplanted into one of our flower beds.
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| Cardoon |
The cardoon roots find there way deep into the soil to it's not an easy job to dig out the root. Hopefully the barrow full is all the old root and the little off shoot will soon grow into a spectacular new plant!
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Sad to lose a cardoon but it's always a planting opportunity
ReplyDeleteHi Janet
ReplyDeleteI think we still have a piece of cardoon surviving but as you say the old cardoon is making way for some raspberry canes and maybe a new thornless blackberry.