After a cold start to November the last few days have been mild. We haven’t had any sunshine for the last couple of days and we had a drop of rain on Monday but the weather hasn't been too bad for mid November.
I've still to decide what to do with our potted gunnera. Our old plant was excavated and removed as part of the project to install our new summerhouse. To all intents and purposes I thought the gunnera would be no more as it was hacked at with spade and pick axe to remove it from its pond side location. It had been growing in the same location for several years and had formed into a mammoth plant.
In winter the leaves turn brown and die back just leaving an enormous crown and “new buds” for the following year. When I dug out the gunnera back in spring I couldn't resist the temptation to keep one or two pieces that I thought might grow and go on to form new plants. These pieces were potted up and left near the pond to see if they would grow.
In fact they've grown well in pots through summer. I guess they've had plenty of water, something gunnera’s can’t do without. As you can just about see here is a new red “bud” ready for next spring. I’ll have to decide how to give the plant a little bit of protection from the worst of the winter weather. Maybe I’ll leave the plant outside and protect it with some fleece around the bud and bubble wrap around the root. I don’t want the plant to get “soft” by over wintering it in the greenhouse.
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