活動／戦闘 計画（する）: Nigel Colborn’s 必須の 職業s for your garden this week

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PRIME TIME FOR PRIMULA?

For those of you who grow primroses, polyanthus or cowslips, this is a good time to 解除する and divide 円熟した or ageing 工場／植物s.?

If you do that every second or third year, your primulas will stay young, healthy and 十分な of flower.?

When the 工場／植物s have almost finished flowering, use a fork to dig them out of the ground.?

Nigel Colborn says that this is good time to 解除する and divide 円熟した ageing 工場／植物s. UK-garden 専門家 says for those who grow primulas use a fork to dig them out

除去する any spent flower 茎・取り除くs and shake off as much of the 国／地域 as you can.?

As the 工場／植物s’ rhizomes become 平易な to see, gently break some of those off or 削減（する） them away with a knife.?

Find and keep rhizomes which have a few healthy roots 加える a 選び出す／独身 rosette of leaves at one end.?

工場／植物 them 個々に, either in マリファナs with good 質 growing medium, or in a 避難所d and weedfree part of the ground. They’ll be small, so 示す where they are.?

Splitting primulas now gives those tiny offshoots an entire growing season to develop into large, healthy 工場／植物s.?

Those will be perfect for 工場／植物ing out next autumn for a 最高の spring show in 2023.

HARDEN OFF TENDER PLANT

Cover them at night when 最低気温s are 予測（する）. If you keep them in shallow boxes or trays, those are 平易な to cover with horticultural fleece (pictured) if necessary

It’s too 早期に to 工場／植物 霜 tender seedlings and 非，不，無 hardy 工場／植物s outside.?

霜 is still possible until late May ― or June in 冷淡な 地域s. Tender 工場／植物s fresh from a 温室 must be toughened up for an outdoor life.?

The easiest way is to place your 工場／植物s somewhere outside which is 井戸／弁護士席-lit, but 避難所d. Cover them at night when 最低気温s are 予測（する）. If you keep them in shallow boxes or trays, those are 平易な to cover with horticultural fleece if necessary.

LAST RITES FOR DAFFODILS

If you want to divide clumps of daffodils, replanting bulbs, the 支配するs say do that in late summer. But 活動停止中の bulbs can be impossible to find

With such an 早期に and 穏やかな spring, daffodils and narcissus gave us a wonderful show. But now we’re left with an 影響 of lank, dismal foliage. For a good show next year, those untidy leaves must remain untouched. The bulbs need to 移転 価値のある nutrients from those, to 蓄える／店 in the 活動停止中の bulbs. If you want to divide clumps of daffodils, replanting bulbs, the 支配するs say do that in late summer. But 活動停止中の bulbs can be impossible to find. So you can 解除する and divide them now, replanting with 広大な／多数の／重要な care.

PLANT OF THE WEEK: RHODODENDRON IMPEDITUM

Rhododendrons cannot be true blue, but this one gets の近くに. Native to Western 中国, Impeditum grows as a small, dense shrub with tiny evergreen leaves

Rhododendrons cannot be true blue, but this one gets の近くに. Native to Western 中国, Impeditum grows as a small, dense shrub with tiny evergreen leaves. In late spring, those are almost blotted out by 広大な numbers of tiny flowers whose petals are a gorgeous blue-purple. 存在 so compact, this one is perfect for a roomy コンテナ. Ericaceous compost is 決定的な.?