These were sown as white for my dark corner last spring . I am sowing more of the 'white' packet just now as I like them then hoping they will naturalise. I would prefer to keep the white ones. I wonder if I should cut down the pink ones after flowering or whether that will be too late to stop them all being pink next time?
Ah thanks I see that was my worry. Oh well its an interesting experiment and I wondered why the packet said white to purple flowers. We will see what this year's packet seedlings produce growing indoors now then next year maybe I will learn to like the pink/purple after that if they naturalise.
I bought seeds of white lunaria with variegated leaves many years ago. Perhaps from Chiltern seeds. It does come true from self sown seeds but is nowhere near as prolific an the standard one in the back garden. This year I’ve only a few plants and they aren’t very robust. Last year I had one particular plant that was almost a shrub. I love it, and would hate to see it go.
I have 5 different ones in the front garden at the moment - the common purple, white, white with variegated foliage (only a few of those this year), Somerset Marble which has pink as well as cream in the leaves and lighter purple flowers, and Chedglow which has purple-ish foliage and purple flowers.
In the back garden I only have the white-flowered ones and rarely get a purple one appearing there.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
For the first time I have got honesty to grow this year, lunaria rediviva. Does anyone know if this perennial happily self seeds around? the interweb suggests so. I'm really hoping so.
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Seed pods are slightly different shape
All the ones around my white rose have turned out white and all the ones around my purple standard rose are purple.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I've sowed a tray of them about a couple of weeks ago, but haven't germinated yet.
Do they need heat?