I growing a few new plants this year . Razania Japonica looks like a pink hellebore - Pteridophyylum racemosum ( only took 5 mins to find spelling of it ) interesting plant looks like a fern but it a poppy - Amsonia ernst pagels late spring blue / autumn foliage . I did have amenopsis alba cost me a arm and a leg weren't expecting it in growth in January ended up losing it . Gloriosa flame lily and achimenes for bulbs . And just different variety's of plants I've already grown .
I grown thalictrums from seed before quite easy going . For plants might went to look a Thalictrum Splendide I believe they are sterile so will flower longer . I have thalcitrum anne also.
@Jess91 You'll need are largish plant for echincea if you want to plant out this year ideally 2Litre up but you may get away a good healthy 1Litre plant, young plants are often very prone to slug damage .
Oh 😢 I was after a specific variety so was going to order the 9cm ones from Crocus. I can protect them from slugs but are you saying plants that small won't flower this year? Was hoping to have them as companion flowers from my new DA Harlow Carrs.
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Oh 😢 I was after a specific variety so was going to order the 9cm ones from Crocus. I can protect them from slugs but are you saying plants that small won't flower this year? Was hoping to have them as companion flowers from my new DA Harlow Carrs.
If you've found your chosen variety I'd order them. Life's too short. Maybe raise them in pots for the first year and plant them out next year.
The garden centres would never sell any plants if they didn't have them in flower so I'm guessing that keeping their roots constricted in a pot might make them 'bolt'.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I growing a few new plants this year . Razania Japonica looks like a pink hellebore - Pteridophyylum racemosum ( only took 5 mins to find spelling of it ) interesting plant looks like a fern but it a poppy - Amsonia ernst pagels late spring blue / autumn foliage . I did have amenopsis alba cost me a arm and a leg weren't expecting it in growth in January ended up losing it . Gloriosa flame lily and achimenes for bulbs . And just different variety's of plants I've already grown .
I grown thalictrums from seed before quite easy going . For plants might went to look a Thalictrum Splendide I believe they are sterile so will flower longer . I have thalcitrum anne also.
@Jess91 You'll need are largish plant for echincea if you want to plant out this year ideally 2Litre up but you may get away a good healthy 1Litre plant, young plants are often very prone to slug damage .
Oh 😢 I was after a specific variety so was going to order the 9cm ones from Crocus. I can protect them from slugs but are you saying plants that small won't flower this year? Was hoping to have them as companion flowers from my new DA Harlow Carrs.
9cm Echinacea plants should flower first season as long as you can protect them , I've used the wool pellets around plants which do ok think they called slug gone . What variety are you after ? Crocus are crazy expensive compared to other nurseries usually twice the price .
@Perki either Summer Cocktail or Parrot, not quite decided yet.
Yes, they did seem expensive but I suppose if you want a specific variety that's what you have to pay. If I went into my local gc I imagine they'd only have the standard purple ones.
Good to hear they should flower though, thank you!
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I have several gaura @Simone_in_Wiltshire and @Balgay.Hill. One needs supporting as it is determinedly floppy but the others hold themselves up and float around in the breeze just like their common name suggests - whirling butterflies.
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I'm growing Gaura from seed for the first time this year. I've got one plant that has survived a couple of winters but many (Whirling Butterfies) that haven't so I'm guessing they're 'on the edge' here and annual sowing might be the way to go.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I had grown Gaura Bride from seeds and they generally fall over. Then I bought a pink version, should be only 40 cm the label said, but they liked it so much that they were 1 meter high and fell over. I love looking at Gaura but this stopped me and I took them out. I have grown Knapweed, Yarrow and Sneezwort from seeds as well as others the first time. I didn't expect that Knapweed could struggle to germinate. But I have now a few plants.
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If you've found your chosen variety I'd order them. Life's too short. Maybe raise them in pots for the first year and plant them out next year.
The garden centres would never sell any plants if they didn't have them in flower so I'm guessing that keeping their roots constricted in a pot might make them 'bolt'.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I ♥ my garden.
Yes, they did seem expensive but I suppose if you want a specific variety that's what you have to pay. If I went into my local gc I imagine they'd only have the standard purple ones.
Good to hear they should flower though, thank you!
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I love looking at Gaura but this stopped me and I took them out.
I have grown Knapweed, Yarrow and Sneezwort from seeds as well as others the first time. I didn't expect that Knapweed could struggle to germinate. But I have now a few plants.
I ♥ my garden.