2 late for Aquilegia?

newbielou

I fell in love with aquilegia plants last year, I got bought a lovely purple one for my birthday which left me with finding excuses to visit the front garden to look at it .
So with my MSE head on I decided to buy a packet of seeds to sow this summer to get lots of plants for next year, however I forgot to sow them in june/july and now im worrying thsat i've left it to late. I have a frost free greenhouse if that extends the season at all?

Thank for reading
Amy x

Sambucus_Nigra

Just sprinkle them where you want them to grow.

Next time, don't buy seeds. Nip a few seed heads off ones nearby and scatter them on the ground at home.

BOGOF_Queen

I only planted some Aquilegia seeds a few weeks ago and they have germinated - I have them in the greenhouse and they are nearly ready to pot on. Try some now and you should be ok. I have also bought some perennial seeds cheaply and most say sow in Spring, but I tried sowing a couple of weeks back (again in the greenhouse) and I now have perennial Poppies and Canterbury Bells that have just come through.

Mojisola

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Nip a few seed heads off ones nearby and scatter them on the ground at home.

I do this every year this with our Aquilegia seeds and we have a lovely show.

With most plants, you dead-head throughout the year but leave a few flower-heads on the Aquilegia to go to seed. Each head will have hundreds of seeds in it.

Davesnave

You havent left it too late, and you'll be best going down the greenhouse route now, but seeds sown this year wouldn't have flowered until 2012 anyway.

Be ruthless with aquilegias and pull out muddy coloured or uninteresting plants as soon as they flower. When increasing naturally, the plainer plants will dominate. Of course that won't apply if you prefer dull pinks and mauves etc rather than the bicolours, variegated leaves etc!

kimmee

Davesnave wrote: »

You havent left it too late, and you'll be best going down the greenhouse route now, but seeds sown this year wouldn't have flowered until 2012 anyway

Hi Dave

I sowed some seeds much earlier in the year and they are now out in the garden, but I assumed that they would flower next year - does it really take 2 years for them to flower?

Thanks

newbielou

Thank you very much everyone, I know what im going to be doing today now :j

I bought the seeds so I could have different colours, it includes grannys bonnets and lots of other colours, so I have a rainbow of aquilegias in a packet (I hope)

Thanks again

macma

Aquilegia are my very favourite flowers I have many different varieties who self seed every year.When we moved here nearly 30yrs ago there was a purple grannies bonnet in the garden and her offspring still exist today:)

Mojisola

kimmee wrote: »

I sowed some seeds much earlier in the year and they are now out in the garden, but I assumed that they would flower next year - does it really take 2 years for them to flower?

Mine don't.

Davesnave

kimmee wrote: »

Hi Dave

I sowed some seeds much earlier in the year and they are now out in the garden, but I assumed that they would flower next year - does it really take 2 years for them to flower?

Thanks

Hi Kimmee,
Happily, no. I think if you got yours off to an early start, you will see flowers.
As aquilegia are quite easy, I used to sow mine a bit late, when the spring rush was over, so that was why mine took so long. I don't think this bothered me, as I always had some coming along for sale each year and, strangely, they weren't big sellers, so I didn't need lots.

My mistake!:o

David.