I think they like a bit of a chill Edd, I sow them in a cold GH while the nights are still chilly. Maybe they were too wet. A water tray sounds a bit OTT
I've been finding little Verbena bon. seedlings in the veg patch - presumably from the garden compost where I composted the 'prunings' from the border. I pot them up and give them a bit of tlc.
I bet if I tried to grow them from seed they'd be much less co-operative
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Like Dove - failed when i tried to grow VB from seed, but one bought plant now yields seedlings all over the garden which i transplant back to their alloted spot
I broke the top off one of my V. bons when moving it earlier this year. I stuck the broken bits in little pots - two more plants now! I've never had problems growing them from seed but I do it quite late on so that they germinate quickly. You don't really get a big plant that year but it makes a nice sturdy one for the following year.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I do the same as chicky and transplant self-seeded ones. They seem to seed just where they like - even on bark chippings and appear like a (very nice!) weed around my garden now.
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I think they like a bit of a chill Edd, I sow them in a cold GH while the nights are still chilly. Maybe they were too wet. A water tray sounds a bit OTT
In the sticks near Peterborough
I bet if I tried to grow them from seed they'd be much less co-operative
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I broke the top off one of my V. bons when moving it earlier this year. I stuck the broken bits in little pots - two more plants now! I've never had problems growing them from seed but I do it quite late on so that they germinate quickly. You don't really get a big plant that year but it makes a nice sturdy one for the following year.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I do the same as chicky and transplant self-seeded ones. They seem to seed just where they like - even on bark chippings and appear like a (very nice!) weed around my garden now.