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Fascinating discovery
Wandering about the estate this morning (before the promised gales and rain) I was looking at one of the rock gardens and found that the seed heads on two different types of Armeria looked to be green. When I examined them, I discovered that the seeds had germinated on the seed head itself. Cannot remember ever seeing that before. Should take a picture I suppose, but it is too wet and windy now.
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I had that happen with foxgloves a couple of years ago - a warm wet autumn and the seeds don't dry out ......
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Mine are doing it too, they did it last year as well. I thought I might remove one or two stems and tuck them into a pot of compost, to give them something to grow into, they can be separated later if successful!
Has anyone got a photo of this? I've never seen it.
I had teasel and sweet peas do that last year, and opium poppies this year. I also bought some pod peas, to find some had germinated when I podded them.
Here is the Armeria formosa seed head.
I have removed a few heads and split up the germinated seedlings from one of them.They had reasonable roots. The other I planted untouched to see what happens. Mind if they grow, there is the problem of what to do with the plants. I can probably sell a few but not that many and I hate throwing things away.
I've had it happen on phlomis - plantlets growing out of the dried seedheads. I think it is just a question of damp but warm weather conditions - quite a curiosity for the grandchildren though.
Thanks for the photo's everyone
Gosh!