Last year I started some Knautia macedonica "melton pastels".
This year they are flowering some five feet high and covered in gorgeous pink scabious type flowers. They should flower until the frosts and are good for cut flowers.Only problem is I put them at the front of the border.
Sow seed now, prick out into pots outside over summer, and plant in final position in Autumn.
Argyranthemum, I love the typical white and yellow type ones, has anyone else grown them from seed? I was looking at plants the other day and there are so many pretty colours
Yes, herbaceous perennials go right down in the winter, and then erupt in the spring to give flowers in the second year,usually. Thompson and Morgan have a list of first year flowering perennials, but you have to get them in early for them to flower the first year. Better to sow around now, and produce a strong plant to overwinter. Sometimes it takes three years. I have Inula and Michauxia just starting to flower, from plants grown two years ago.
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In the sticks near Peterborough
Last year I started some Knautia macedonica "melton pastels".
This year they are flowering some five feet high and covered in gorgeous pink scabious type flowers. They should flower until the frosts and are good for cut flowers.Only problem is I put them at the front of the border.
Sow seed now, prick out into pots outside over summer, and plant in final position in Autumn.
Not me. I don't eat much from the garden. I even buy my herbs in jars while the plants are growing in the garden
In the sticks near Peterborough
Argyranthemum, I love the typical white and yellow type ones, has anyone else grown them from seed? I was looking at plants the other day and there are so many pretty colours
So, another questions, herbaceous perennials, they are like Papaver or hollyhock and die down totally then come up again the next year? Is that right?
Yes, herbaceous perennials go right down in the winter, and then erupt in the spring to give flowers in the second year,usually. Thompson and Morgan have a list of first year flowering perennials, but you have to get them in early for them to flower the first year. Better to sow around now, and produce a strong plant to overwinter. Sometimes it takes three years. I have Inula and Michauxia just starting to flower, from plants grown two years ago.