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Can you identify this please.
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I've been trying to grow these for over 5 years! No luck so farLove living in a village in the country side1
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in_my_wellies said:I've been trying to grow these for over 5 years! No luck so far
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I've never bought a packet, although I did try a free packet from a cereal box.
I've sprinkled fresh seeds collected from my aunts garden straight onto my borders, all sorts of places, kept some moist, just left others
I've collected whole plants in a paper bag just as the seed is ripe and planted the whole plant in my border and let the seeds fall
I've planted fresh seeds in a large pot
I've planted saved seed in the spring
I've kept the seeds in the fridge and just in an envelope
The occasional plant has come up but once it's gone it's gone and they've never set seed
I have no problem with forget-me-knots and often pull up a whole plant and shake it where I want new plants. ?
Anything else I should try?Love living in a village in the country side0 -
in_my_wellies said:Anything else I should try?
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in_my_wellies said:I've never bought a packet, although I did try a free packet from a cereal box.
I've sprinkled fresh seeds collected from my aunts garden straight onto my borders, all sorts of places, kept some moist, just left others
I've collected whole plants in a paper bag just as the seed is ripe and planted the whole plant in my border and let the seeds fall
I've planted fresh seeds in a large pot
I've planted saved seed in the spring
I've kept the seeds in the fridge and just in an envelope
The occasional plant has come up but once it's gone it's gone and they've never set seed
I have no problem with forget-me-knots and often pull up a whole plant and shake it where I want new plants. ?
Anything else I should try?0 -
in_my_wellies said:I've never bought a packet, although I did try a free packet from a cereal box.
I've sprinkled fresh seeds collected from my aunts garden straight onto my borders, all sorts of places, kept some moist, just left others
I've collected whole plants in a paper bag just as the seed is ripe and planted the whole plant in my border and let the seeds fall
I've planted fresh seeds in a large pot
I've planted saved seed in the spring
I've kept the seeds in the fridge and just in an envelope
The occasional plant has come up but once it's gone it's gone and they've never set seed
I have no problem with forget-me-knots and often pull up a whole plant and shake it where I want new plants. ?
Anything else I should try?I can relate entirely. I'm in same situation, just can't get them to grow no matter what I do.Other items just self seed and get on with it, including foxgloves, forget me nots & nasturtiums, and in recent years even shoo fly has taken a liking, possibly a gift from next door's bird feeder. I've even had peanuts popping up
Eight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens0 -
Like erodium pelargoniflorum, which is a brilliant plant, but if you buy seed, sow it in a pot and water it, it will refuse to do anything. Dig one up from outdoors, pot it and it will just laugh at you and die. My tip: chuck seed on surface of dry area and forget about it.
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Davesnave said:Yes, foliage is correct for a Welsh poppy. We have the orange, red and yellow ones, but pull up most yellows because they are dominant and would take over. One you have them, they normally stick around and they grow just about anywhere except dense shade.0
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Have been in our house for c. 18 years - for most of these there were one or two Welsh poppies in one area, but over the past 3 or 4 years they have started spreading quite noticeably - seem to prefer places that are in partial shade, rather than open and sunny. Mind you, everything seems to take a long time to start growing here.. (on a 700ft Welsh hill)... Maybe you just have to wait a while!
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Just want to show you the foxgloves you all kindly identified for me and thank you all.
I know they are poisonous but so lovely to look at. The type of plants that I have seen in cottage gardens I have always dreamed of. The first year I moved here I found some lovely rambling roses in this area of my garden..
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