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| I see seed pods developing on Dicentra, Poppy and Aquilegia. Every year I manage to miss the Dicentra. Either the pods look too green to me, or they've already popped open and are gone. The aquilegia are easy to collect but wow, I noticed this year, how quickly they went from flower to seed pod. A week maybe? Is it just this year, or do they always do that? Poppies should be easy to collect, but mine are Oriental and I'm wondering if they will grow true from seed?
So what are you collecting? |
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- Posted by countrycarolyn 6-7nwTN (My Page) on Mon, Jun 6, 11 at 10:48
| Eww love the thread cause I love collecting seed!! Almost started a thread like this myself. I tried to collect from my phlox divartica and I be dern I totally missed them, I have never seen a plant produce seed and drop that fast. Ugg I sorry if anyone wanted any but I failed on that miserably!! It is dormant so I will be happy to send some if anyone is interested for postage. I did manage to collect from my muscari grape hyacinth and my dianthus barbatus is starting to produce seed and my gailardia is almost ready. Another treat is the virginia stock that I sowed this year I am already collecting seed pods from that. I was pretty excited to find out how easy it was to collect seed from that little plant. The pods look like miniature little beans, how neat!! I noticed it has been weird with some of my plants, I mean the phlox I have never tried to worry about collecting the seeds so I had never timed that but that was a fast drop. My poppies are just starting to bloom and usually they bloom way earlier in the season. They look kinda weird this year and the bloom it self it is kinda like something keeps knocking the bloom off then one day I went out and the entire thing had just crusted up like it was a week old and it had just bloomed the previous day. Something is weird anyone else noticing this? I am not sure about your columbine or your poppies hopefully someone will come along and help you out!! |
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| On your two mysteries...try them anyway. My columbine was pitiful this year and I lost most of my oriental poppies. On the other hand, I have harvested and summer sown seeds from my perennial alyssum. The babies will go out in the fall. |
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| My comlumbines this year were just awesome. I hope to start collecting their seeds withing six weeks--but they're slow to ripen and take their own sweet time to get ready. It will only happen when the columbines are ready. Sigh, there's no way to rush any of it. T |
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