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Lavender from seed
Guernsey Donkey2
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I sowed some lavender seeds last Autumn - a few germinated and now look like this. They seem to be very slow growing. How long do they take to mature enough to plant out and then to flower?
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I grew them, this year yours will probably send up one or two flower stalks, I cut them off to strengthen the plants. I planted them in some big troughs last year, they flowered and have survived the winter. So yours may do the same, main flowers next year, although you are a lot warmer where you are.
A lovely man from this site sent the seeds to me on the seed swap thread, ArchiePem, so if you ever look in Archie, they are still going strong, thank you.
That's reassuring to know Lyn, I know we are warmer, but we seem to be having less sun this year, too much fog and damp.
I will plant them out in a month or so, and hope for flowers next year. I collected the seed from some lavender that our neighbour had last summer but which has since died off.
Don't be in a rush to plant them out GD, maybe May/June. They may do better being potted on once more before going out.
I have never had much luck from seeds but very easy to raise from cuttings in summer.
I have never had any luck with cuttings jaffacakes - somehow cuttings don't often work for me, except for Budehlia - I just haven't got the luck for cuttings. I picked and sowed about 50 lavender seeds and got about 15 that have germinated. I used poor soil with gravel - very little watering (early October when it was still warm in our cold GH).