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What plant keeps eluding you??
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Posted by
tomva 7-central virginia (
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Tue, Apr 5, 11 at 15:43
| Mine is the Confederate Rose,2nd year now and no sprouts yet..I had germenation last year but it didnt survive being planted out,,I'm still hoping to add this to the garden this year..Fingers crossed.. |
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| Good luck on that rose, I hear it is beautiful. Phlox paniculata (summer tall phlox), I have had the hardest time starting this from seed. Do birds eat phlox seed?? 2nd year in a row that I have tried to grow this and no sprouts here either. Phlox drummondi (I think that is the spelling) is easy cheesy for me to grow. Oh and oriental poppy AGAIN I had sprouts and I never transplanted but they are having a hard problem producing true leaves before they die off. 2nd year on that one also. |
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- Posted by lois PA Zone 6 (My Page) on
Tue, Apr 5, 11 at 18:35
| Lupine treats me the same way CC's oriental poppies treat her: I get sprouts in the jug, plant them out, then they die. I am pretty sure the issue is my high-clay soil. So I found someone with a horse who will let me have some composted horse manure.... It's fully composted, and has become a soft, silky black and buoyant soil with, I am sure, lots of vitamins and minerals for the plants. I have a few other things that have not yet sprouted, but I am still hoping they are just delayed because of the cold weather. One thing I wish DIDN'T sprout are those darned lemon balm seeds that get everywhere, LOL. I have 2 suspected lemon balm seedlings masquerading as a blue poppy seedling and a primrose seedling. I don't dare pull them yet because I am not 100 percent sure... Ever since I ripped out the only hellebore seedling I ever had (I thought it was poison ivy because it had 3 leaves), I am a lot slower to clear out seedling suspects. |
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| Joe Pye has failed to sprout for me after 4 years of trying, so I gave up and bought a fire thorn bush for my wildlife instead, and since that is a bird food source and not a butterfly food source, I am waiting now for my milkweed seeds to germinate. Hopefully I will have luck with those. Mary |
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| Hosta-After 3 or 4 yrs of ws these I am giving up on these.I have only gotten 2 sprouts in all this time.I have even direct sown these.Guess they just dont like me.Im sad!!! cuz I really wanted some big leaf ones. |
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- Posted by pvick z6B NYC (My Page) on
Wed, Apr 6, 11 at 10:23
| KMOTGG. This is either my 6th or 7th attempt (maybe more, can't remember), and still nothing. I can't let a plant beat me, but this one is sure trying. PV |
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| Sweet Autumn Clematis. I haven't given up yet and have them planted this year, but I've had no luck for three years running. |
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| KMOTGG. Sigh. I tried for 7 or 8 years (maybe more). I didn't try this year. PV, you're more persistent than I, lol, for trying again. I need a year off, lol! :)
Dee |
RE: What plant keeps eluding you??
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| corn, ripe tomatoes, watermelon, and sunflowers. we have very little sun and such weird weather that all i can grow are cherry tomatoes and baby corn. hopefully gardening at the new place will be different :D |
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- Posted by sjc48 5 Michigan (My Page) on
Wed, Apr 6, 11 at 23:24
Red Monarda. I've done direct sowing, HM/GL, bought the plants, I've tried everything but WSing. All I've got is one ratty looking plant, that puts out one bloom a year and acts like it doing me a favor-yes, I am taking this personally!
Will try WSing next year, and if that doesn't work, I'm done. I mean it.
Shirley! |
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| The western Agastaches! Agastache rupestris, Agastache 'Purple Pygmy' and 'Apricot Sprite' - commercial seed, I tried these 3 years in a row, NOTHING. I've traded these seeds and other gardeners have gotten them to sprout, but not me. Oh well. Also Passiflora incarnata - Maypops. Tried 2 years, nothing. There are others I don't remember at the moment. |
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| I have 3 jugs of larkspur and 4 jugs of delphinium's. I got 3 1/2 sprouts out all put together. The Sea Lavender keeps dying off too. |
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Iberis, I love those early white blossoms but I can't get it to live more than the first year. Even when I buy plants with bloom, the next year they are gone. I believe it is hardy here as other people seem to be able to keep it growing.
I've got seeds out there again, a fool's errand I think. |
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| ladyrose, try direct sowing larkspur in late summer/early fall. Vera's tip, and it worked much better for me than WSing. Platycodon eludes me. I sowed it for 4 or 5 years, not a sprout. I finally bought a plant a couple of years ago, wasn't so fond of it. It died out it's first winter. I'm over it, done with that plant. Karen |
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| Lupine--second and third sets of leaves, plant out, slug candy. Blue Poppy--four years running and three sprouts that disappear before any true leaves appear. I have seeds chilling to spring sow in three weeks. Five years and counting . . . cheers,
Norabelle |
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| Lois, I know it isn't funny to you, but your description cracked me up! It can be so frustrating gardening sometimes. Bev |
RE: What plant keeps eluding you??
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Impatients. Tried winter sowing, starting under lights, starting in the greenhouse and nothing. Pelleted seeds, regular seeds and nothing.
So I just end up buying a few. Come to think of it, these would be easy to propagate from cuttings. DUH! I'll just buy a select few and do that! Thanks for letting me think out loud...LOL |
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| I can't keep an orchid alive for very long. I feel so bad, buying them when I know I'm just going to end up murdering it. Can't help myself though. I have 2 right now, one is blooming, has been for a month and a half, the other I've had since July, it put out a new bloom stalk and I was SO EXCITED. Then the buds dried up and fell off. :( Dirtbert- I have one bed where my impatients reseed like crazy. It's full sun in the spring, then my neighbors tree leafs out and gives it shade for the summer. I tried taking cuttings to save my favorites for this year, but they looked sad sad sad after about 2 months. Hopefully I get some lavender with pink center babies this year! |
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| Wallflower, and Linum flavum compactum (yellow flax). This is my third year to sow both, and I get germination every time, but they always die after I plant them out. |
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