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| yes, I know it isn't roses but where else can I boast? So yep, germinating today - The really bad news is the city council are renewing my roof - am dreading the upheaval and massacre of plants (since they only gave me 3 days notice) in my tiny garden......so a huge transfer is underway in boxes to allotment. |
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- Posted by mendocino_rose z8 N CA. (My Page) on Wed, Feb 26, 14 at 8:32
| Spring is nearly here! |
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| Lol, it's always so exciting when things start to pop up, isn't it! I have about 15 new little rose seedlings now and I'm tickled pink! I love primulas! I hope yours grow like weeds! |
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- Posted by nikthegreek 9b/10a E of Athens (My Page) on Wed, Feb 26, 14 at 12:44
| Well, last time I sowed any seeds, directly in a bed how stupid of me, I had forgotten all about it and then I took off all those 'weeds' come spring. Yes I did. Nik |
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- Posted by melissa_thefarm NItaly (My Page) on Thu, Feb 27, 14 at 0:59
| I need to learn how to sow seeds....congratulations!! |
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- Posted by daisyincrete 10? (My Page) on Thu, Feb 27, 14 at 3:54
| Great Suzy. I love it when the seeds first sprout and there is all that promise. Do take loads of photos, won't you? Daisy P.S. My one bulb of Tulipa sprengeri has completely disappeared. Boo Hoo. |
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| Daisy - I will send you seeds - nothing is easier than T.sprengeri - it is a mystery to me why they are so expensive but also why, when you do buy seeds, you only get 10. Each flower produces hundreds of them. I will pm you because I still have spares and will have lots more in July. Melissa, this autumn, I am trying a different method where I make small seed beds in situ (ie. in the woods), filled with potting mix so it is friable and well drained...... and sow directly into the prepared beds. Lets do it together. |
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- Posted by mariannese 5b (My Page) on Thu, Feb 27, 14 at 4:53
| I'll sow 50 alpine and garden auricula seeds soon, perhaps the only perennials I'll sow this year. Auriculas are my second plant passion, not least because they are so easy from seed. |
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| Oh, Mariannese, auriculas - aren't they treasures? And fragrant. They have been life-savers for me in long winters - there is always the odd fugitive bloom - I creep off to the greenhouse for a furtive sniff. I had an auricular 'theatre' but got fed up with the continual vine-weevil battle....and just replanted most of them at the allotment....where they are proving remarkably tough and resilient, edging one of the beds. I have some minuscule seedlings as well as the many offsets. Ho Nik, been there....too many times. |
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- Posted by kittymoonbeam 10 (My Page) on Fri, Feb 28, 14 at 18:48
| How goes the transplanting? 3 days warning isn't much time. I wanted a chamomile lawn so much. I sowed seed and got just a few batches of plants and the rest of the area was bald. This was after getting over flea beetles wiping out ( in just 2 weeks! ) my gorgeous dichondra that I had fussed over. Giving up on the chamomile, I planted a packet of mixed butterfly friendly flowers which looked great until they looked like weeds a month later after blooming. I tilled the whole thing under and raked out the plants and there were so many small chamomiles that had self sown. Can't win. So now it's a lasagne bed that's going to have wood mulch on it until I decide what to do in the fall after I remove the extra soil that I am composting under. It should be great soil after summer ends and I want to grow something wonderful there. Gladiolus and dutch iris are starting to grow now and miniature daffodils are blooming. Peaches are the size of cherries and the plum tree is flowering. Strawberries are just starting to turn red. I am going to sow some carnations after the rain goes by. There are 5 good plants left from the last time I sowed seeds almost 4 years ago. The ones from seed last longer than the plants I bought in 4 and 6 inch pots. |
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- Posted by daisyincrete 10? (My Page) on Sun, Mar 2, 14 at 10:47
| Wow, thanks Campanula. I would love some seeds of Tulipa sprengeri. Only trouble is, every time I put my e-mail address on my profile page, it keeps disappearing. I will keep trying. My Tulipa sylvestris has just started flowering. You should try those too. They have a very elegant flower. Gorgeous auriculas Mariannese. |
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| Yeah, I have that going on too (or you could simply e.mail me). So here it is: suzangreenfingers@hotmail.com Obvs, I will get yours when you pm me. Today, dierama pulcherrima, lathyrus aureum, geranium wallichianum 'Syabru' and verbascum phoeniceum are up. Sounds wonderfully productive, Kitty-----almost making me salivate |
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