In season, I did feed cherry toms to the chucks last year @Lyn. Haven't seen any babies popping up in strange places yet tho but it's probably a bit cold yet. Two jumpers day here!
They love grapes too.......... but I don't expect those come true if self sown or bird sown.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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@Obelixx Just been out to the garden hundreds of tiny Verbena bonariensis. I didn't think any would have made it through. I wonder if they like soil disturbance in the same way as poppies.
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Maybe so @GardenerSuze. I only have them in one small patch so far and haven't yet got around to weeding it and checking for seedlings of that and some eryngium in the same bed. Are you going to try and sow some in freshly cleared soil to test your theory?
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I tried growing common marsh orchids for years without success then last year one that had arrived there with no help from me was flowering in the margin of my pond.
Lucky you @DaveGreig ! We have a single, purple, wild orchid - orchis mascula - growing in poor, dry soil not far from our pond on the dege of an area we leave unshorn all spring and summer and I put a stake next to it 3 years ago to make sure OH doesn't mow it.
Has it flowered since? Not likely! Just gets bigger leaves each year and no babies from when it did flower.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
@Obelixx That is a interesting thought. Never kept V bonariensis seed as I have always been confident that at least some would be back the following spring. Easy from cuttings too. Papaver somniferum and V bonariensis seedlings appear in my garden at the same time each in spring. Could just be that the soil is that bit warmer for seeds to germinate. Both plants seem to do better as nature intended.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
I have had common orchids flowering in various containers in my garden now for several years. No idea where they came from, I do nothing other than leave them to their own devises. I planted a troillus near my pond a few years ago. It flowered regularly then disappeared for the last 3 years. I noticed a couple of days ago, two lovely globes of yellow waving in the breeze, so it is still there. Again, no idea for the break in flowering but I am delighted to welcome it back.
Last year I planted some gladiolies and dahlias in a new border to fill space while other plants got established. I treated them as annuals, leaving them in the ground and then planted other more permanent plants and shrubs right next to them. They are now sprouting which is great but a real dilemma as now I will have to move either the sprouting glads or the shrub it’s growing through.
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They love grapes too.......... but I don't expect those come true if self sown or bird sown.
Has it flowered since? Not likely! Just gets bigger leaves each year and no babies from when it did flower.
Papaver somniferum and V bonariensis seedlings appear in my garden at the same time each in spring. Could just be that the soil is that bit warmer for seeds to germinate.
Both plants seem to do better as nature intended.
I planted a troillus near my pond a few years ago. It flowered regularly then disappeared for the last 3 years. I noticed a couple of days ago, two lovely globes of yellow waving in the breeze, so it is still there. Again, no idea for the break in flowering but I am delighted to welcome it back.