https://www.thecornergarden.com.au/field-notes daily 0.75 2026-10-19 https://www.thecornergarden.com.au/field-notes/reviving-a-root-bound-plant monthly 0.5 2026-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a144fd505db040658eba04/409e6cfb-cc00-423f-9ccb-01da32403939/5.png Field Notes - Reviving a root bound plant - Prepare the plant After you’ve vowed you’ll never go back to that nursery (you will), give the plant a thorough water and leave it for 24 hours so it has time to hydrate and the roots will be more pliable. If you don’t have the patience, that’s fine, just walk away for 10 minutes and come back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a144fd505db040658eba04/36f60045-259c-45fd-9b05-f440ac5d9e3f/6.png Field Notes - Reviving a root bound plant - 2. Cut off the ROOT PANCAKE If your plant is as severely root bound as my specialty dahlia was in these images, cut the whole section of the circling roots off (the root pancake). They won’t re-direct themselves to grow outwards again. It’s ok, it will be fine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a144fd505db040658eba04/f15bade3-ec63-4871-9fd3-02e47b3af218/7.png Field Notes - Reviving a root bound plant - 3. DISRUPT THE CIRCLE EFFECT Along the side of the root mass, you’ll still see roots curling around the side. Scrape or cut downwards, so you’ve cut across the circling roots. Do this 3-4 times around the root edge of the root ball. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a144fd505db040658eba04/fd6eb66b-ea1c-4e6a-b649-49b178876d1c/Fruit+Tingle.png Field Notes - Reviving a root bound plant - 4. Repot and recover (you and the plant) Repot your plant in a larger pot and with good quality potting mix (I go for the premium mixes at Bunnings or the Poynton’s Potting Mix if you’re in Melbourne), and give it a water with Seamungus or Seasol to help it recover from the shock of having it’s roots butchered. This will also help stimulate new, healthy growth outwards, not in circles. Now, for your recovery: go and look at photos of the mature, beautiful plant it will grow into that will absolutely, definitely, change your garden and life for the better. Here is a picture of the stunning Florelie Fruit Tingle Dahlia that I bought root bound and had to revive. Hopefully it will be in your Flowers from the Corner arrangements this summer! Photo Credit: Willow Creek Farm Meadows (*not* the business who sold me the root bound plant!) https://www.thecornergarden.com.au/field-notes/early-spring monthly 0.5 2026-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a144fd505db040658eba04/c854b91c-9dad-43c9-834a-96fd5b879b12/IMG_4809.png Field Notes - Early spring: cool season flowers are a go. - curing daffodils in crates Spring bulbs and corms need to be left to die back so they store enough energy to come back with a flourish next year. But when you are growing in consecutive seasons like I am, this delays your next crop planting (and then harvest) as you have to feed the soil in between crops. This is especially important as I don’t want to pump a load of synthetic fertilisers into my soil so I need time for some green manure to grow and then terminate. With daffodils (and I’ve heard anemones), you can move them from their garden bed after they’ve finished flowering to ‘cure’ in crates with soil. This will free up the beds to sow green manure to improve the soil before I can plant another 400 plants in the raised beds they were in and still stick to the summer timelines. I’ve loved seeing the (new to me) varieties I planted this year - isn’t this White Lion Daffodil beautiful! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a144fd505db040658eba04/f3d93c62-c2a3-4884-a41b-ca75060198f9/IMG_4628.png Field Notes - Early spring: cool season flowers are a go. - FLOWERS FROM THE CORNER The reception to my Flowers from The Corner at Westerly has been so lovely! It has been a cold and quiet couple of months, watching greenery grow in my garden but with few bursts of colour. On Saturday I sold out of all the flowers, in total 17 arrangements in roughly two hours! This was a beautiful arrangement made as a birthday gift when the theme was ‘cottage-core’. 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