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I’m planning to make a corner wildflower border in my garden for next year, and although I’ll be seeding the newly prepared area this Autumn, I’m also planning to use a number of plants – some Ox-Eye Daisies and Lysimachia Punctatas - which I intend to transplant into the border in the Spring.
I realise I might be a bit if a twit in buying them at this time of the year as I now have to overwinter them, and feel that I planted them out now they’d be easy to prey to marauding slugs and other little beasties. I also realise that should probably be hardy enough to survive a Winter outside – and the Lysimachias are outside in big pots already – so do other members reckon they’d be OK if I potted the Ox-Eye Daisies up as well when they’ve grown enough to take on the big world?
I’m thinking of protecting the pots with a defence line of copper tape, but short of another try with nematodes (a distinct fail earlier this year) and/or calling down air strikes, I’m at a bit of a loss at to what to do.
Could anyone offer their thoughts on this one, please?
I realise I might be a bit if a twit in buying them at this time of the year as I now have to overwinter them, and feel that I planted them out now they’d be easy to prey to marauding slugs and other little beasties. I also realise that should probably be hardy enough to survive a Winter outside – and the Lysimachias are outside in big pots already – so do other members reckon they’d be OK if I potted the Ox-Eye Daisies up as well when they’ve grown enough to take on the big world?
I’m thinking of protecting the pots with a defence line of copper tape, but short of another try with nematodes (a distinct fail earlier this year) and/or calling down air strikes, I’m at a bit of a loss at to what to do.
Could anyone offer their thoughts on this one, please?
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