Amateur Gardening

Repot and rescue

IT is very easy to take one’s eye off the gardening ball at this time of year when everything is going on and there is a temptation to prioritise, say, crops and new plantings.

I was caught out by a small bottlebrush tree () that I love as it reminds us of holidays in Spain (which we won’t be getting this year). It had been thriving, or so I thought, in its pot but I noticed it was suddenly looking decidedly dejected.

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