Well, learning experience in #Rakeden: I'd expected the herb robert in Undercherry all to have flowered and gone over long before now, as elsewhere, so it could then be cleared, allowing the bugle & cyclamen time to come back through late summer. Alas, no.
I'm guessing maybe that area directly under the cherry just hasn't had enough hours of sun to spur the flowering, so it's just grown thicker and greener, leaving the poor bugle and cyclamen too deprived of sunlight, I reckon, to get going on again properly.
Started clearing the herb robert out today belatedly, and it's not a disaster, there's still a fair amount of bugle there, but it does seem to have been suppressed a bit, where I figured as a woodland ground cover it'd be fine. Found one cyclamen, I think, but still looking.
*Hopefully* if the weather's OK tomorrow I can get more of the herb robert cleared and I'll find the cyclamen lurking in there fine, just not kicked into its regrowth yet, unlike the cyclamen in Smolsneuk (which came from a different shop anyway, could be a different variety.)
Shall maybe do some nettle juice feeding of the area once it's fully cleared of the herb robert, keep it going into the autumn, and hope that it gets the bugle spreading out again. And I guess next year we weed out the herb robert rather than let it run rampant.
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