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Posted by mary_max 5 (My Page) on
Mon, Jun 18, 12 at 14:54

All my larkspur just starting to bloom. They are all on the ground though. Can I cut them back and get new blooms or is this it? Right when things start to bloom they fall down. Cut all the salvia down right when they were ready to do their show due to this flopping also. Seems I grow flowers that get ready to bloom then I wack em down cuz they are all on the ground. Someday I will get this figured out. Neighbors must think I am crazy! LOL

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Not really. They would just make a few small, short flower stalks with 3-4 flowers on each. They are just a short lived, ephemeral type flower, they don't have the season long, regenerative and reblooming properties of some annuals.

I guess just chalk it up to experience, and in the future, support them with either stakes, brushy twigs, or a metal plant support grate prior to blooming. Or, as I have done in the past, when I sow the larkspur in the winter, I have done it as mixed planting with Shirley poppies and winter rye. They look fabulous all coming together in the spring, and the rye does a good job supporting the flowers.

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