Unfortunately, wallflowers should be sown in late spring/ early summer to flower the following spring. But if you have a look round markets etc, you'll probably be able to getvsome bundles of bare rooted plants ( usually much cheaper than module sown garden centre ones) which will flower next spring. If you do buy the bare rooted ones, plant them as soon as possible as they rot if left standing in water, as I've found, to my cost but the compost bin's gain!
i would definetly recomend chrysanths to any new gardener. they give a great splash of colour at this time of year. easy to propagate and nice and hardy
I always underplant violas with bulbs. if you dead head them they flower prolifically for months and when they get leggy I do a chelsea chop and they recover and flower some more. Although I do move them in spring I can get them to flower all year but usually don't have time in spring/summer to dead head which they need. Cheap and cheerful until my garden matures.
Figrat thank you for your advice I will save the seeds for next spring. I went to my local nursery yesterday and bought some lovely violas for my containers and they had some wallflowers in pots so I bought those as well, but they said that I would have to wait for flowers.
christopher what cannas hav you grown this sumer.mine hav not flowered and the leaves hav been lookin very tatty. i just put it down to the poor wether.
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I bought some wallflower seeds yesterday, if I sow them today when will they flower?
i would definetly recomend chrysanths to any new gardener. they give a great splash of colour at this time of year. easy to propagate and nice and hardy
I always underplant violas with bulbs. if you dead head them they flower prolifically for months and when they get leggy I do a chelsea chop and they recover and flower some more. Although I do move them in spring I can get them to flower all year but usually don't have time in spring/summer to dead head which they need. Cheap and cheerful until my garden matures.
Figrat thank you for your advice I will save the seeds for next spring. I went to my local nursery yesterday and bought some lovely violas for my containers and they had some wallflowers in pots so I bought those as well, but they said that I would have to wait for flowers.
Hollie-hock did you sow the seeds indoors?
christopher what cannas hav you grown this sumer.mine hav not flowered and the leaves hav been lookin very tatty. i just put it down to the poor wether.