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Which plants have Monty's children found best grown from self-collected seed?
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cosmos for me, i still have them flowering profusely at the moment, really pretty pale pink ones
Yes, Cosmos are very easy. Have you tried the orange ones (Sulphureus)? I bought some dwarf ones from T & M and so far they are coming true. I was worried they might cross with the tall ones but I have kept them well away and they don't seem to. - Ian
no i haven't, i have mainly whites/creams, blue/purple & pale pinks in the garden, i planted loads of jacobs ladder outside a few weeks ago in a large seed planter and every single one seems to have come up, also i planted in the same planter large imperial larkspur and normal larkspur and they are all coming up too now, it's just the astranthia that aren't showing yet, i planted them in marked rows in the planter so i can move them later on, i did this because in previous years when i have scattered them where they are to flower i have either dug them up when doing other things, weeded them out by mistake or planted something where i had scattered them! i tried taking cosmos cuttings from my plants and they rooted in two days, i did try it in my hydropod but i can't see why they wouldn't root just in a glass of water, they successfully transplanted to compost so i will do a load of that next year to get exact copies of them as the colour is just right. they are still flowering profusely at the mo.
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