Gunera manicata?
Posted: Feb 18, 2006 2:48 pm
I have a plant which was sold to me as Gunera Manicata. It stands beside the pond in a large hole lined with plastic to keep its feet wet.
The coming spring will be its 6th so by now I should be expecting large tall leaves, but so far it has been disapointing, growing to about two feet with leaves about two feet each. The root ball when I dug it up to insert the plastic liner weighed nearly 200 lbs, and it has about 15 flower spikes. It has also produced two seedlings which have grown to about the same size.
I'm wondering if one of two factors could be true.
1. It is short of nitrogen, the dark green leaves would indicate to me that this is perhaps not the case.
2. It is not manicata. I'm wondering if there are smaller gunneras which look like manicata in everything but size.
Can anyone help please?
The coming spring will be its 6th so by now I should be expecting large tall leaves, but so far it has been disapointing, growing to about two feet with leaves about two feet each. The root ball when I dug it up to insert the plastic liner weighed nearly 200 lbs, and it has about 15 flower spikes. It has also produced two seedlings which have grown to about the same size.
I'm wondering if one of two factors could be true.
1. It is short of nitrogen, the dark green leaves would indicate to me that this is perhaps not the case.
2. It is not manicata. I'm wondering if there are smaller gunneras which look like manicata in everything but size.
Can anyone help please?