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When should I move my flax?

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ampere · 28/02/2010 16:19

Slightly scruffy specimen, longest leaves maybe 75cm long, in my newly acquired garden. It was obviously planted central to a narrow (1m wide?) bed, but it's spreading and drooping forwards over the adjoining path leaving a good third of a metre gap between it and the boundary fence behind it.

What I want to do is to ease/force the whole caboodle back. I will dig a hole behind it, loosen and of course inevitable cut some of the roots at the front and push the whole thing back, bed it in and perhaps stake it to stay put. I want it to grow more upright, not slump forwards!

But when? 'Spring'? late March, say?

Your thoughts please.

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GrendelsMum · 28/02/2010 19:28

Are we meaning a phormium here?

I think early March might be a little better, depending on where you are.

If it's a bit scruffy, I'd be tempted to take off the scruffier leaves at the ground level as well.

If possible, I'd lift it, dig in some compost / blood, fish and bone to the planting area, and then plant it backwards from here it was, so it's now leaning the other way. Then as it starts to grow towards the light again, you'll have it evening up. But this might be more work than you think it's worth.

ampere · 28/02/2010 20:27

Thanks! I am keen to try and salvage it. It'd be different if it was just 'not quite in the right place' and was a proper specimen, but it's in the wrong place AND leaning at a jaunty angle to the path!

I appoint you as my personal gardening guru, GrendelsMum

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