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Thank you @Spruce I shall do that ...

Hiyou can soak rice overnight and use that to water your orchids , and then you can cook the rice to eat , win win

That's great @Sydney Carton. It's a tough plant, so it may not have affected them too much if they were a bit deeper than is ideal, but I just thought I'd ask! Keep us updated, and add more photos, if you're concerned, or need any other help in future. Fingers crossed they'll be fine

That's why it doesn't survive here @Liriodendron - for either situation!It'll just be the flowers changing as they fade and die off then

Thank you @longk @simone_in_wiltshire and @pete for all your help with this

Or Shady Steve

Thank you, very useful info. I'll get it planted out ASAP

Will repotting this Calathea help it to recover, I think it's been watered too much ... And should I do it now or wait until the spring ?

The Spartina is a coastal grass @CostasK so it copes with drought as well as lots of water. Mine is in a bottomless bucket/pot of some kind - can't remember exactly. I have a flag Iris in a bottomless pot too, next to it, and that stops it from trying it's usual takeover bid.

I always do cuttings of V.bon @Escarpment , to ensure I have new plants. They often don't make it through winter here, so it's the most reliable way to keep them going, although the changing climate means I've been getting some managing to survive if they're up against the house wall or similar....

Thanks for all the tips - Too difficult to dig up most of the plabts as they’ve been established a long time - so might just live with it !

I would leave well alone. Take a chance and try to 'do better' next year. The trailing ones will probably get eaten by slugs first. I gave up growing them long ago because they do not stay in flower for very long.

That's interesting @pete . I'll be keeping a look out. I probably don't see any seed that falls from the plants that are in the gravel, because they'll just fall into the gaps, but I've not noticed seed as late as that in any borders - maybe because I have a lot of ground cover, so other...

Thanks @Thevictorian, that's good to know. Indeed, I will do my best to keep it protected

Thanks @Carolinet

Apparently the lily I had is a tiger lily and its... edible... eaten by the chinese...I think ill pass considering how lethal the other lily species are

Update from the SB Invigorator people. I quote…“SB Plant Invigorator is a surfactant-based product so, as with all soaps, they can be harmful to aquatic life.However, this would only apply if significant amounts were mixed with the water. Spraying an application at the specified dilution...

I agree too- if you can get them potted up individually soon - maybe with hubby's help [it won't be too tricky!] that will also help, because if you have to wait until the end of next month, there's a good chance they'll be quite knitted together, and will then be harder to separate for potting...

We have loads of self seeding [sporing @Selleri ! ] ferns around the garden, and everywhere around here, and I also used to grow the evergreen ones in previous gardens. I've never seen slugs or snails eating them either, and we have no shortage of those - eating everything they can. Ferns never...

Some time ago I had 3 different Semponiums in pots. I kept them in the cold frame in winter (no greenhouse). As far as I remember they all got eaten by snails - I wouldn't recommend them. Also they never grew very much in the time I had them.