They germinate well if you time it right - whether it's inside or outside You just have to learn about, and work with, your conditions, and it's often about patience...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
They such a cracking plant and the bees and butterflies love it. Roll on Spring it's been one very long winter. Not long now. 26 days 21 hours and 5 seconds 🤣😂
No - any compost with some extra drainage added is all that's needed - for almost any seed. It's about the timing of sowing more than anything. Unless you're in a much warmer, lighter part of the country, this is still early for seed sowing. Then it's about having the space to prick out and grow on - probably a couple of times before they can go outside. Again - that acclimatisation depends on your climate.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
im just doing a few. This it it till March. They doing ok. Using lamp for extra light now. Moving them away from window sill at night. Temperature is 22 in room. Fingers crossed. If they fail for some reason altogether. I'll try again.
I have been amazed at the different plants which self seed in gravel, cracks in between paving slabs, etc. It makes me think we probably kill many seedlings with excessive love, care and attention. I have cyclamen coum and cyclamen neapolitanum growing out the sides of stone walls, trailing lobelia growing between paving slabs and schizostylus? growing unsown, in various containers. I even have the common orchid growing in my containers, no idea where the original plant could have come from. I give these seedlings no care whatsoever, they must be happy to have germinated, reached flowering size, and reappear year after year. I have never tried growing bonariensis from cuttings as I always have a supply of seedlings which do not need hardening off etc. In fact it is beginning to reach the oint where I treat the seedlings as weeds and put them on the compost heap.
Just don't add fertiliser in future. They don't need it - no seedling does
When they're pricked out and moved on, the medium they're in is enough until they go out, unless it's something that isn't being planted out for a while, in which case you'd just repot. Assuming the compost is of a reasonable standard of course
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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You just have to learn about, and work with, your conditions, and it's often about patience...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Unless you're in a much warmer, lighter part of the country, this is still early for seed sowing. Then it's about having the space to prick out and grow on - probably a couple of times before they can go outside. Again - that acclimatisation depends on your climate.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thanks again.
I have cyclamen coum and cyclamen neapolitanum growing out the sides of stone walls, trailing lobelia growing between paving slabs and schizostylus? growing unsown, in various containers. I even have the common orchid growing in my containers, no idea where the original plant could have come from. I give these seedlings no care whatsoever, they must be happy to have germinated, reached flowering size, and reappear year after year.
I have never tried growing bonariensis from cuttings as I always have a supply of seedlings which do not need hardening off etc. In fact it is beginning to reach the oint where I treat the seedlings as weeds and put them on the compost heap.
When they're pricked out and moved on, the medium they're in is enough until they go out, unless it's something that isn't being planted out for a while, in which case you'd just repot. Assuming the compost is of a reasonable standard of course
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...