Just wondering how everyone’s tidal wave seedlings are coming on, I grew the burgundy ones but they’re not taking the wet weather very well, flowers are getting damaged with rain drops.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Mine are doing well, but they are not yet blooming. I imagine they will be out next week. I was interested to see they are advertised as not needing dead heading. How does that work? Does anyone have any pics of theirs? I see some people train it upwards and some have it trailing. I'd like to try both.
The Blue Denim seed-grown Wave petunias are faring well. My Red Velour petunia grown from seed are yet to flower but the cuttings are flowering quite prolifically but looking a little bedraggled in the rain (just like everything else, cat included)
Fire, answering your question, when spent the flowers just shrivel to almost nothing and then drop off (to the ground, not to sleep). They flower so profusely the dying blooms are scarcely noticeable.
The photo I posted earlier shows the plant encouraged to grow upwards, though the encouragement takes the form of nothing more than a peony support. When the rain eases a bit I’ll take a photo of the hay basket at the front of the house where the intention is to let them trail.
Here are a couple of pictures from last summer, growing up and growing down. Some flowers in their dying throes are visible but don’t detract.
Amazing. Thanks. I'll get some peony supports. Out of interest, in that last picture, how many plants are in the trough, visible? I have put five plants in a small window box which I now suspect is way too many.
I did not bother taking in the hay basket last winter and though temperatures fell to -6° C most of the petunias survived. I replaced the few that had died with some cuttings. Here’s a picture taken a few moments ago. Since last summer, the basket has been moved to the other side of the front window - getting past it to the front door had become an obstacle course.
Same sized hay basket by the back door, this one filled with Red Velour grown from seed. I hope it spurts into growth soon to cover the rather tawdry looking plant support from Wilko’s
This is Blue Denim, another in the Wave series, being grown here in a chimney pot. And if that is the colour of denim, I’ll get a mullet haircut and change my name to Suzie Quattro
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The photo I posted earlier shows the plant encouraged to grow upwards, though the encouragement takes the form of nothing more than a peony support. When the rain eases a bit I’ll take a photo of the hay basket at the front of the house where the intention is to let them trail.
Here are a couple of pictures from last summer, growing up and growing down. Some flowers in their dying throes are visible but don’t detract.
Growing down
Same sized hay basket by the back door, this one filled with Red Velour grown from seed. I hope it spurts into growth soon to cover the rather tawdry looking plant support from Wilko’s
This is Blue Denim, another in the Wave series, being grown here in a chimney pot. And if that is the colour of denim, I’ll get a mullet haircut and change my name to Suzie Quattro