This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.
Watsonia
Anyone growing Watsonias?
my local nursery has a couple of stunners and I am soooooooo tempted. glorious peachy orange and sumptuous white.
can provide the hot poor conditions in summer and the mild winters but yet to see them growing anywhere.
Opinions would be appreciated
0
Posts
Neer tried them Verdun - no point here .............. but go on go on go on! You know you want to ...................
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You'd better pop around there tomorrow then ...... where are you going to put them?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've seen them growing in Madeira and County Clare and admired them... but of course, no personal experience of growing them. In County Clare they were in full sun in a walled garden, facing SW I think. I guess western Ireland has a similar climate to Cornwall? The average winter temp. in Co.Galway (next one north) is minus 5.
Don't forget the photos, Verdun.
I saw them growing really well in a botanical garden in Brittany, gorgeous. Brittany has a similar climate and soil to Cornwall - so I would say go ahead! I really wanted them, but have such different growing conditions here.
Actually Verdun, I have grown them from seed that I got from the RHS about 7 years ago. I only got two to germinate so they are precious. I grew them in pots for five years in the greenhouse and then I planted one outside and kept the other one in its pot. The planted one produced 9 flower stalks and the flowers were orange with electric blue stamens, really pretty and I think I put a picture of it on the 'what's the star in your garden' thread. They didn't get to more than 18 inches high, but I think some do.
I think that you being where you are will be able to keep them year in and out.
So go for it and please put a picture here of the white one please as I've not seen one.
I will have to look in my seed box, as I might have saved some seed from my orange ones. They do ok here if they have lots of shelter from other plants, but I have to be careful as we in Rickmansworth, Herts are in a frost hollow.