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| I am home sick and itching to WS. I have my 2 large urns ready to sow. (only thing I have dirt for)
My plan is white alyssum seeds and rocket larkspur. Last year I over sowed the Urns and they looked messy and awful. I am planning on sticking with 2 seed types only. How would larkspur and alyssum look? I have a stash of mostly marigolds, gallardia, foxgloves, ruds, lupine and alyssum. I joined the Secret Santa Swap and kept my wants short and I got lots of my favorites! any ideas? I am dying to WS today!! Karen |
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| I also have several types of daisy seeds. Crazy, shasta, blue eyed. etc.... thanks! |
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| I WS Alyssum 'Carpet of Snow' every year and love it. I sow it in a salad box and it does very well planted out Hunk-o-seedlings. This year I ordered some Alyssum seed with mixed colors, purple and pink I think. I also WS Larkspur (Delphinium ajacis) last year, and they sprouted well but the seedlings never did much. Not sure why? |
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| Terrene, Many wintersowers choose to direct sow Larkspur because it does better than if you transplant it. I'm trying direct sow this year because my wintersown didn't do very well either. Martha |
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| thanks!! I sowed alyssum but I am waiting to figure out what else for the urns. They are large so I need something tall and something to spill over. |
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- Posted by mechele211 TN 6b (My Page) on Mon, Feb 14, 11 at 19:24
| How about tall snapdragons? |
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| Trailing petunias would be pretty trailing verbena thumbergia dichondra Karen |
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| I sowed larkspur last year. They were neglected but managed to flower. However, they got very dwarf! As you can see on the pic, they're not much taller than the marigold. There are many factors that could have caused this. I left them in their little salad container for too long. I couldn't separate the roots when transplanting, and ended up plopping the whole container into the ground. And as you can see, they don't get much sun as the sun was blocked by zinnias (I know, I know, I need to plan better lol). It also could be a dwarf type. Anyway, they seem doing fine for me after much abuse...
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| Vera's tip for larkspur: Direct sow in late summer, earliest fall. They'll sprout and get a start before winter sets in, and winter over in the garden. When warm weather hits they'll take off. These were over 4 ft tall.
Karen |
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| Karen; this garden, and larkspur, are sooooo beautiful. Last year, I WS'ed larkspur and had similar results as siichan. I decided, I'm not going to bother this year. I'm hoping that some had self seeded. Now, I have to remember to direct sow in the late summer. Again, beautiful flowers. |
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| thanks for the advice and pictures!!! I plan to try them! Karen |
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- Posted by countrycarolyn 6-7nwTN (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 8:27
| How big are you urns?? Ya know it is so hard for me to make recommendations for combos sometimes I am that person that has to actually place the plant in the container and fluff and imagine, lol. Though I may put in about 3 plants. Height could be the larkspur. Depending I guess on what type of larkspur it is. Maybe I am wrong here but doesn't some get to be about 4 to 5 feet?? If so then I would plant something with a medium height the blue eyed daisy sound nice. Then for the overflow I would do the alyssum. Depending on the size of the urn you could probably get away with maybe 1 or 2 plants at the most of each. |
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| Gorgeous larkspur Karen! My WS'n larkspur did the same thing as what others have reported, they were tiny and flowered at about 6 inches tall. I think I'll try direct sowing. |
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| Thanks everyone! Maybe I will sow the larkspur then thin out extra seedlings. the urns are big but not big enough for more than a few plants. Karen |
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| Larkspur must be an Ohio thing. Mine are thick and crazy. We'll see how many come back this year, but I will save seeds for your guys. Now, if only i could grow Delphs. |
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- Posted by gardenunusual 5a (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 14:25
| Delphs I know need cold stratification. I thought because Larkspur was similar, they did too. I wonder if those larkspur that were wintersown that dudded out, will be better the next year? |
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