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Plants in need of nursing!! Please help

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Cloudtree · 12/07/2019 15:51

Ok so I have just returned home with 43 plants for 50p (for the lot). They are all half dead (or possible in some cases, completely dead)

How do I best nurse them back to health?

I have:

12 lavender (some with soft growth on, some look like they haven't seen water for weeks and are looking pretty dead)
6 salvia red (look loke they been chomped on)
3 x bush fuchsia - patio princess (these all look fairly ok)
3 x bush fuchsia - Heidi anne (extremely dried out)
1 x veronica (looks very wilted and like someone has sat on it)
3 x trailing fuchsia el camino (one looks fine and even has flowers, one looks like its probably beyond saving and the other is half and half)
3 x trailing fuchsia Harry gray (both look quite happy)
1 x eryngium Planum (tiny and very wilted)
1 x hardy fuchsia shrimp cocktail
1 x verbena Rigida (limp and dead looking but not crispy)
1 x rumex sanguines (small and a bit limp)
2 x ceanothus snow flurry (last watered circa 2015)
1 x hardy pinks dianthus doris (limp, no flowers)
1 x coreopsis early sunrise - limp but definitely has recovery potential.
1 x campanula takion blue (completed flat and wilted)
3 x hardy fuchsia Alice hoffman (not happy)

I know some of you are really good at bringing plants back from the brink of the compost heap. I would be very grateful for any tips!

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Cloudtree · 12/07/2019 15:52

Oh hang on I missed off 8 trailing lobelia.

I appreciate some of these will be annuals and probably not worth too much effort

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Dontsweatthelittlestuff · 12/07/2019 16:16

I often buy the reduced half dead plants and all I do is stand them in trays of water for a day or so. Any with clearly dead bits on I will prune them off and give everything a good feed with a multi purpose food when planting.

Cloudtree · 12/07/2019 16:37

Ok I'll prune off the crispy bits. With a couple of them I suspect that won't leave much...

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NotMaryWhitehouse · 12/07/2019 17:23

Really good water and put them out of the midday sun for the weekend- would love to see some before and afters!

ThisIsNotAIBUPeople · 12/07/2019 17:28

I would use some of the miracle grow granules, I've rescued a few plants with this, just mix a scoop into some decent potting compost and water well.

Beebumble2 · 12/07/2019 19:15

I agree with water well, especially the Fuchsias and cut off the dead bits. Then I’d repot the fuchsias and perennials into ‘ nursery’ pots to see how they do. If and when there is new growth I’d consider their final planting place, if they are hardy types.
With the annuals water and pot up into planters etc, they’ll sink or swim.
Go gentle on feeding, as it could put stress on the plant to make too many roots and soft growth.

Beebumble2 · 12/07/2019 19:16

I meant to say, wow what a bargain, how did you come across them?

Cloudtree · 13/07/2019 15:46

They were in the garden section of a local supermarket. Even if only one survives it was worth my 50p. I reckon half the fuschias are fine and will recover well. The salvia will perk up. About half the lavender look ok and the others we will see.

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Beebumble2 · 13/07/2019 16:07

It’s so sad when plants are neglect like this, but to your advantage. I hope they all thrive.

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