Department: Herbaceous
It was the 2nd Grand Curatorial Day. Today we were helping Herbaceous do cutting back on the Glasshouse Borders. I was in the group that cut down all the coloured stems at the back of the border. It is a little early for them, but we did it because it was an opportunity for them to have this done whilst there was so many people. It was mainly
Salix - alba var.
vitellina 'Yelverton' - an orangey, reddy, yellow one. We cut it down to generally two nodes. I also did a dark black/ brown one, slightly less vigorous and more thin stemmed one called
S. gracilistyla 'Melanostachys'.
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| Photo 1: Cutting back the winter stems of Salix gracilistyla 'Melanostachys' |
The grasses were also cut down in the border.
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| Photo 2: Mass cutting back in the Glasshouse Borders. |
