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Honesty!

gsdfandfgsdfandf Posts: 114
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Hello all. I came across a honesty plant last year in seed & decided to collect & sow app 2dozen or so in pots, transferring them as the grew & finally into a huge tub whose leaves now completely fill it. I understand it's supposed to flower about now, but all I've got is this dense canopy in the tub. It ain't going anywhere near the beds etc, but I was just curious  as to what the flower would look like, before recycling it.  
Cheers.

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    You should put it in the beds. It's beautiful.
  • gsdfandfgsdfandf Posts: 114
    @ WAMS "You should put it in the beds. It's beautiful" Hmm! it appears that the honesty only booms the 2nd season after planting & spreads like wildfire. The jury is out on this one.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    They’re biennials, they’ll flower next year.
    It doesn’t spread like wildfire,  the seeds germinate, you can easily see them and they pull out easily. 
    I only have white ones but they fill a gap before anything else starts to bloom. 
    The dried seed heads,  once seeds removed make a nice flower arrangement through the winter. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    edited May 2023
     Insects like them and the seed heads are lovely.
    Yes, they do self seed, but learn to recognise the seedlings and they are easy to pull out when young. I'd rather have a seeder than a runner any day!
  • Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
    gsdfandf said:
    @ WAMS "You should put it in the beds. It's beautiful" Hmm! it appears that the honesty only booms the 2nd season after planting & spreads like wildfire. The jury is out on this one.
    I hadn't noticed in a previous garden it spreading like wildfire, I loved it, both in the growing state and in it's dried state.

    BTW love your taste in dogs! 
    Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 

    Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    It self-seeds around quite freely but the individual plants die after setting seed and it's easy enough to pull them out before the seed ripens if you don't want them the following year.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    I think there should be a law against not posting pictures of your German Shepherd on this thread where we can see them properly.
  • gsdfandfgsdfandf Posts: 114
    Thanks one & all for your input. 
    @Jenny_Aster, gsdfandf ie, German Shepherd Dogs First And Foremost. The one in my avatar, "Our Cassy" was the last of nine Shepherds over 44 yrs with my late wife. 
    Apologies for going off piste. 
  • Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
    @gsdfandf All dogs are heart breakers  :'( every single one of them.


    Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 

    Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
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