Description

Hypericum Magical Mystery!

Either Hypericum ‘Magical White’ or Magical ‘Innocence’ Peach (Cut Flower Type) (pbr)

For some reason we lost the label or put it down for a second and now can’t remember the variety so if you fancy a lovely surprise add one to your order, you won’t be disappointed.

Shade loving!

Plants are tolerant of any soil conditions and any position in the garden including pots for the container garden!

The are professional cut flower varieties grown by the experts for the floral industry. Plants have a very long and productive harvesting window, producing large berries for more than 5 weeks during summer.

Note: These are bare roots, we are not expecting or needing the foliage to survive, it does however protect the stems nicely in transit. All the new growth comes from lower down behind the old tips and berries. Plants also shoot from the base of the plant. After soaking you can go ahead and trim off the tops but keeping the branches as the framework where rosettes of new leaves will appear.

EITHER Late, Ivory White, delicate flowers produce large summer berries or Early unique Salmon pink, delicate flowers produce large summer berries.

Long branches and beautiful healthy dark leaves.

Eventual size – height 80-100cm but up to 150cm in my garden, spread 80-100cm +

I find Magical White fruit slightly later than Magical Innocence in my garden, order both for an extended harvest of fresh berries.

Bare Roots:

You can only order bare root plants from late Autumn to late Winter when plants go into natural dormancy. Growers dig them up from their fields to order.

This means the roots will be free of soil and dormancy speeded up by removing their water source. They dehydrated plants will shed some if not all of their foliage.

Water is lost through the leaves by a process call transpiration. By losing their leaves the plants are protected from drying out and otherwise perishing.

Expect plants to continue shedding leaves once they arrive. Hypericum are deciduous. Lovely fresh new growth will emerge spring, or sooner if we have a mild autumn and winter.

What to do when they arrive:

Remove plants from the packaging as soon as they arrive and place plants in a bucket of water so that the roots are entirely submerged. Don’t forget to tie a label on them. Leave them to soak for up to 12 hours (or overnight) before potting up into containers for best results. Plants look pretty sorry for themselves when they first arrive. This is just down to the lack of water.

Stems will feel firmer after a soak and slowly the nodes will start to swell, this is where the new leaves will come from. The very tops of the plant are spent and will need pruning away. You can do this in the Spring or now. This will be an annual task.

Plants are incredibly hardy, however pruning encourages new growth, so I avoid pruning plants in deep winter when new shoots could get nipped in the frost.

These bare root plants are a generous size, you will need at least a 2 or 3 litre container depending on the size and shape. This will give plants ample room to settle in and start to grow. The white varieties have a slightly smaller root ball if you get your plants muddled up.

Mini Handbook:

Hypericum are very easy plants to grow, however I have included as much information as I can think of to ensure you have the best results, in a free Mini Handbook that will be added to your account dashboard alongside your Handbooks at dispatch.

I hope you enjoy it!

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