Sorry to sound impatient! Only just saw the reply to my post. Will check what they look like when I get home Friday. Got a carful of plants & cuttings with me plus 3 bargain potted Heucheras with bright pink flowers - (6 for €10) and 3 Wand Flowers €1 each from a Brocante. Nightmare trying to keep the car out of the sun for the 3 day return trip!
I bought a white Spring Magic today - has anyone grown this? Also two packets of seeds Mr Fothergill's Biedermeier Mixed & Suttons Pretty Bonnets mix - has anyone tried growing these please? It says to sow the seeds in Feb & March next year but can I sow (in cold GH) later this year?
Lynn my lovely blue aquilegias start out as a pale muddy green colour both in bud and when they first start to open, after a couple of days I start to see the true colour coming through so fingers crossed the same will happen to yours.
B3 I have pink pom poms, nora's and a lovely purple single - all in close proximity - I can collect a little mixed packet of seeds if you fancy playing 'sow and see' with them.
I will put seed on the seed swap thread after I have collected it. Seed of aquilegias can be sown late summer, the seedlings then die down for the winter and have a head start on spring sown one's. I pricked out Autumn sown one's in March. I left them in the same seed tray over last winter, pricked them into single three inch pots in March, which are now ready to go in the ground for flowering next May.
Thanks Fidgetbones - I will follow your lead and try the same regime - I am itching to sow them now but will wait until the heat of the summer (if we get one) dies down and sow September ish time. Both packets of seed show multicoloured varieties of Aquilegia so it will be interesting so see just what I get from them.
What a lovely colourful display you had to come back to Lyn P.W. So you had nothing to worry about as they are hardy little plants and seem to thrive on neglect don't they.
I will put seed on the seed swap thread after I have collected it. Seed of aquilegias can be sown late summer, the seedlings then die down for the winter and have a head start on spring sown one's. I pricked out Autumn sown one's in March. I left them in the same seed tray over last winter, pricked them into single three inch pots in March, which are now ready to go in the ground for flowering next May.
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Sometimes the immature flowers are ugly ducklings and sometimes they develop into swans and sometime they don't. Wait and see what happens.
Sorry to sound impatient! Only just saw the reply to my post. Will check what they look like when I get home Friday. Got a carful of plants & cuttings with me plus 3 bargain potted Heucheras with bright pink flowers - (6 for €10) and 3 Wand Flowers €1 each from a Brocante. Nightmare trying to keep the car out of the sun for the 3 day return trip!
I bought a white Spring Magic today - has anyone grown this? Also two packets of seeds Mr Fothergill's Biedermeier Mixed & Suttons Pretty Bonnets mix - has anyone tried growing these please? It says to sow the seeds in Feb & March next year but can I sow (in cold GH) later this year?
Lynn my lovely blue aquilegias start out as a pale muddy green colour both in bud and when they first start to open, after a couple of days I start to see the true colour coming through so fingers crossed the same will happen to yours.
B3 I have pink pom poms, nora's and a lovely purple single - all in close proximity - I can collect a little mixed packet of seeds if you fancy playing 'sow and see' with them.
I will put seed on the seed swap thread after I have collected it. Seed of aquilegias can be sown late summer, the seedlings then die down for the winter and have a head start on spring sown one's. I pricked out Autumn sown one's in March. I left them in the same seed tray over last winter, pricked them into single three inch pots in March, which are now ready to go in the ground for flowering next May.
Thanks Fidgetbones - I will follow your lead and try the same regime - I am itching to sow them now but will wait until the heat of the summer (if we get one) dies down and sow September ish time. Both packets of seed show multicoloured varieties of Aquilegia so it will be interesting so see just what I get from them.
Hi folks
I did reply to the post re my Aqs. Not sure where it went.
When I got home from France I was delighted to find they had all flowered !
What a lovely colourful display you had to come back to Lyn P.W. So you had nothing to worry about as they are hardy little plants and seem to thrive on neglect don't they.
I dont have any yet
when is the best time to buy and plant some?
Does this have to be done indoors?