On 2013-06-19 13:22:55 +0100, David Hill said:

On 19/06/2013 12:01, Spider wrote:
On 18/06/2013 08:41, David Hill wrote:

If nothing else, the yellow welsh poppy Mecanopsis cambrica tolerates a
good deal of shade - I have it growing in the join between tarmac and
wall in the narrow lane alongside my house.

In our experience - a happy one - M cambrica tolerates just about
everything but deep sea immersion! It has seeded itself all over the
place in our garden. We have it in beds facing east, south weat and
north, in pots and slightly posher containers, in wide borders and in
something closely resembling a gravel path and it seems to be having a
particularly good year this year. It's a fabulous plant and if it
wasn't so generous with its favours, people would be fighting over
obtaining seeds, imo. It's probably Ray's favourite plant AND to cap
its virtues, it's a rare day in the year when you can't find one in
flower somewhere in the garden. Every garden should have one - to start
with! ;-)


That is IF you can get it to start, it doesn't seem to like me as I've
failed every time I have tried to grow it.




It takes best from *really* fresh seed. Can you beg some from a neighbour?


I would if I could, but I cant as there is no one in this part of Wales
growing it that I have found.

Plants really do have a will of their own. Ours has seeded itself in a
large patch and in precisely the right place, too, in the border under
the office window, in a container with other plants and on the very
pointy edge of that same border, right beside some Nepeta, with which
it looks wonderful. That's just for starters, too! Obviously there's
something about David's soil and that of his area that it just doesn't
like. ;-(
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Sacha
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South Devon
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