I experimented last year sowing in July and up to 1st August, and SOME of them (especially earlier sown ones) were big enough to flower this next year, most weren't but they are going to be HUGE plants next year! Expect about 4 weeks to germinate, only barely cover seeds with compost (they want light) but do NOT let the compost on the top dry out especially just at germination time or they will die.
I gave strong growing conditions and long season of growth by growing these July/August sown ones in my greenhouse...perhaps I should have fed them as well to encourage quick growth. Good luck, and do let us know results if you sow now. Carrie Thomas, Touchwood.
Hi Carrie. I've got hundreds (no exaggeration) of your aquilegias waiting to be planted out in the autumn. They could have been planted out before but the ground wasn't ready and later on it can be like concrete. A hard life for a young plant.
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Are the tree lupins the ones that grow on Southwold beach Holly?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Not far from the beach. The ones I collect, whilst walking the dogs, are over the road from me - near some fishing lakes.
I love those, Years since I've been to Southwold though. used to take the kids and they could get lost in the lupins.
In the sticks near Peterborough
They're lovely and smell good too. The ones on the beach got infested with a lupin aphid and disappeared, they're sort of coming back now.
I hope they make it back to their full glory. They were great
In the sticks near Peterborough
I experimented last year sowing in July and up to 1st August, and SOME of them (especially earlier sown ones) were big enough to flower this next year, most weren't but they are going to be HUGE plants next year! Expect about 4 weeks to germinate, only barely cover seeds with compost (they want light) but do NOT let the compost on the top dry out especially just at germination time or they will die.
I gave strong growing conditions and long season of growth by growing these July/August sown ones in my greenhouse...perhaps I should have fed them as well to encourage quick growth. Good luck, and do let us know results if you sow now. Carrie Thomas, Touchwood.
Hi Carrie. I've got hundreds (no exaggeration) of your aquilegias waiting to be planted out in the autumn. They could have been planted out before but the ground wasn't ready and later on it can be like concrete. A hard life for a young plant.
Many thanks for seeds and advice
In the sticks near Peterborough
Here is some nursery rows in flower this year:
Another view of them. These would have been sown early the previous year.
That's the sort of effect I'm after
In the sticks near Peterborough