My Aster Red Ribbons are just coming into bloom. They are my first ever attempt at growing from seed and I just needed to share my joy with you all as my family think I have lost the plot
Hi Lena I'm new to gardening also and like you am getting a real big puffy chested thrill from seeing things I've grown from seed. they look really pretty and healthy plants, well done you! And yup...my family is the same except my mother whose guilty for passing on the gardening bug to me!
Fantastic! I know the feeling, my family look at me like I am a total loon when I excitedly show them freshly germinated seeds. I am turning in to a bit of a seedaholic now....... Be warned, that's the next stage......
Yes, it's definitely addictive! I've also got lupins and hollyhocks on the go and don't even get me started on all my cuttings! Every windowsill in the house is now taken. I've told the husband we need a house with more windows... and a bigger garden of course!
I'm yet to try taking cuttings Lena, you sound like you've jumped in with both feet! Good for you! I've got lupins and hollyhocks getting big for next year too and am about to sow some cornflowers. good luck with it all!
I started a bit back to front as I've been taking cuttings for a couple of years but never ventured into seed sowing- it looked so difficult. I started off with easy ones in my garden like hebe, buddleia and pelargoniums but then got addicted to taking cuttings and tried out mallow, roses, hydrangeas and osteospermum. It's so much fun making new plants for free from what you already have in your garden
I remember the lavender hedge my nan grew from a plant a neighbour threw out. She just planted the cuttings where she wanted them to grow. It was very sandy soil. That made me think this gardening lark couldnt be that difficult.
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Hi Lena
I'm new to gardening also and like you am getting a real big puffy chested thrill from seeing things I've grown from seed. 
they look really pretty and healthy plants, well done you! And yup...my family is the same except my mother whose guilty for passing on the gardening bug to me! 
Fantastic! I know the feeling, my family look at me like I am a total loon when I excitedly show them freshly germinated seeds. I am turning in to a bit of a seedaholic now....... Be warned, that's the next stage......
Yes, it's definitely addictive! I've also got lupins and hollyhocks on the go and don't even get me started on all my cuttings! Every windowsill in the house is now taken. I've told the husband we need a house with more windows... and a bigger garden of course!
I'm yet to try taking cuttings Lena, you sound like you've jumped in with both feet! Good for you! I've got lupins and hollyhocks getting big for next year too and am about to sow some cornflowers.
good luck with it all!
Snap to the lupins, I have attempted growing cuttings a couple of times but they failed. I really need to try again.
Thanks Wonky, and good luck to you too!
I started a bit back to front as I've been taking cuttings for a couple of years but never ventured into seed sowing- it looked so difficult. I started off with easy ones in my garden like hebe, buddleia and pelargoniums but then got addicted to taking cuttings and tried out mallow, roses, hydrangeas and osteospermum. It's so much fun making new plants for free from what you already have in your garden
I remember the lavender hedge my nan grew from a plant a neighbour threw out. She just planted the cuttings where she wanted them to grow. It was very sandy soil. That made me think this gardening lark couldnt be that difficult.
Pootler, I've never tried lupin cuttings before but have just recently sown some from seed. They are so cute, they look like teeny tiny lupins already