"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
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"0tterbot" wrote in message
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hello,

i hope this isn't the dumbest question on earth.

i have a number of annual flower seeds which can be planted "autumn or
spring". my question is: if you plant them in autumn, do they grow &
flower in winter, or do they merely grow more slowly & then flower
earlier in spring, or do they sit there & wait until early spring before
they do anything?

Ummmm. Dunno depends on what the flowers are I guess.

heh, good point. i just don't have any info on some i have - so i can't work
out if there's any point in doing it now (i don't think so if it can be put
off.)

lastly while i'm on the subject (sorry!!) i have some dark purple pansies
which are about 18 months old (they were potted, but are now in the
garden) & have not yet died nor ever stopped flowering. is this normal
for pansies? will i have them forever? (are they just re-sowing
themselves?!)

They may but then again they may not and they may also revert to some
other looking pansy as well. The more you want them to reseed the less
likely they are to do so. Keep nipping off the spent flowers as that will
keep them going for a long time

well, they are a little vampirish also - i've never deadheaded them. the
most extreme it got was i gave them a bit of a haircut one time when i
decided they looked straggly. heaven knows what happens to the seeds, i
don't look :-)

thanks in advance - sorry this is a bit long. in short, anything you want
to tell me about annual flowers, go for it g. ta.

Another book for you "Let the Garden Go" Cheryl Maddox - great for the
country, time short gardener.

i'll keep my eyes open, thanks!

i'm really not a "flower person" - not that i dislike flowers (quite the
reverse!!) but i just can't be bothered fart-arsing about with something i
can't eat :-) i just want them to either live forever or look after that
side of things themselves after a while :-)
kylie
(who came to be really sorry about all the larkspur she pulled out without
thinking....)