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Euryops - how to salvage?

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  • 21-04-2024 3:46pm
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    Hippodrome Song Owl
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    I have a Euryops in a pot. It looked well and flowered OK last summer after I inherited it. It stopped flowering in August (too early apparently), but weirdly produced a few flowers in late December. Since then it turned into a withered mess.

    I had a good look at it today to see if it is actually dead, but it has a few buds but very little foliage excepts at the tips of the woody stems. It had a lot of crunchy brown leaves that just crumbled in my hands. Incredibly it seems completely dried out despite the wet weather of late. I was told it needed little water and hadn't considered it might need water in recent months. It has been sitting near the front door (south facing).

    Any advice on how to save it welcome.

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    Jim_Hodge
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    It's getting a bit late but cut back dead stems as far as possible. Mulch the base, water, and new growth should appear. Cut back in late summer after flowering.



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    Hippodrome Song Owl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,174 ✭✭✭Hippodrome Song Owl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122046179#Comment_122046179

    It was cut back in September.

    The problem is that there are buds with yellow flowers about to open at the end of all those sorry looking stems. It's weird because they do look dead all the way to the tips, then there's a bit of foliage and a bud.

    So should I sacrifice the existing buds and just cut it back completely now?



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