I would leave them in the garden and trust to luck.
In the pic those prickly plants look like teasles. I have lots coming up in the more formal garden, but can't seem to get them to establish in my wild area. The same with foxgloves.
You have a good eye Bede, they are indeed teasels in the foreground. I really like them so I bought a few as plugs early in the year and planted them out in spring to flower next year. Worth noting they stayed green right through the drought - seem like very tough plants.
I wonder where the name of the plant comes from borgadr?
Google said: The genus Nicotiana (from which the word nicotine is derived) was named in honor of Jean Nicot, French ambassador to Portugal, who in 1559 sent samples as a medicine to the court of Catherine de' Medici.
I can work some technology.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Pete8,yes we have some like that have been in pots...self down for at least 4 years. They produce seeds,that I keep,and just don't die down. Didn't get chance to take a picture,it's been persisting it down in Biblical proportions
I'm not to worried if I get a decent clump that establishes and spreads year on year, I'm lucky enough to have space. They're pretty easy to pull up anyway.
borgadr said:they are indeed teasels in the foreground. I really like them so I bought a few as plugs early in the year
Once you've grabbed a teasle, never forgotten.
I gathered a few seedheads from the wild. (I must have broken some law, but that's me - reckless.). I dried them in the greenhouse for later sketching and spraying gold for decoration. They germinated madly. Two years' later they are still coming up in the staging shingle and any little gap and cranny. But not in the wild area.
Mine in the flower garden were statuesque, flowered well and stayed alive. But I wouldn't call them "green". More a greenish-brown with dead bits. I cut the offending fully dead leaves off. In a normal wet summer, the leaves are so arrange that they retain water - a sort of stagnant debris-filled sludge. Better to have a drought.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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The genus Nicotiana (from which the word nicotine is derived) was named in honor of Jean Nicot, French ambassador to Portugal, who in 1559 sent samples as a medicine to the court of Catherine de' Medici.
I can work some technology.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I gathered a few seedheads from the wild. (I must have broken some law, but that's me - reckless.). I dried them in the greenhouse for later sketching and spraying gold for decoration. They germinated madly. Two years' later they are still coming up in the staging shingle and any little gap and cranny. But not in the wild area.
Mine in the flower garden were statuesque, flowered well and stayed alive. But I wouldn't call them "green". More a greenish-brown with dead bits. I cut the offending fully dead leaves off. In a normal wet summer, the leaves are so arrange that they retain water - a sort of stagnant debris-filled sludge. Better to have a drought.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."