I collect the seeds every year, they make millions of them, they are also one of the fool proof plants to grow. I prick them out as Lobelia, a pinch at a time. You get a variety of colours that way, if you’re into variety of colours that is😀
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
calibrachoa, fuchsias and lobelia here, I told myself I wouldn't do any this year because of my fibromyalgia being terrible these past 2 months but I haven't learnt!
Yes Blue Onion I'm sure you're right ~ I'm off to my local nursery this weekend to get this year's supply. I just love the starry Isotoma. I did save some seeds and although they germinated in my greenhouse with a heat mat they didn't get as big and bushy as the commercially grown ones. I spoke go the nurseryman and he explained they use heat and a light system. Anyone got one? Are they worth investing in?
Shady ones have ivy and heucheuras. Sunny one has pelargonium and violas and succulents in one. Mixed annuals in other like trailing nasturtium some cosmo, pot marigold and cornflowers.
Hi Lyn, your basket displays are breathtakingly beautiful I am so impressed that you grow everything from seed. I was clearing out my "Gardening Box" over the weekend and realise that I have a habit of buying seeds that I don't plant and then just spend a fortune on buying the exact same plants instead. I vowed I wouldn't do that next year. So can I ask, when do you start planting to get the kind of displays you have now . And also do you buy the seeds or get the seeds from the actual flowers.
I am just planting up now. I collect Nemesia and Bacopa seeds, which this year I sowed on the 8th March. I buy the rest, only cheap from eBay. I sow most basket plants around the middle of March, except Lobelia which I sowed in the 16th February.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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I prick them out as Lobelia, a pinch at a time. You get a variety of colours that way, if you’re into variety of colours that is😀
Sunny one has pelargonium and violas and succulents in one. Mixed annuals in other like trailing nasturtium some cosmo, pot marigold and cornflowers.
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I collect Nemesia and Bacopa seeds, which this year I sowed on the 8th March. I buy the rest, only cheap from eBay.
I sow most basket plants around the middle of March, except Lobelia which I sowed in the 16th February.