Ranunculus
 

Does anyone have growing tips or experience with ranunculus?
Are they easy to grow?
Should I start them indoors (I am in Vermont)
Thank you.

Ranunculus
 

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(McFadden57) wrote:

Does anyone have growing tips or experience with ranunculus?
Are they easy to grow?
Should I start them indoors (I am in Vermont)
Thank you.

There are many species of Ranunculus. If you mean Ranunculus ficara, it is
easy to grow & can become a little weedy, but is so small & emphemeral for
early spring that it is hardly apt ever to be a nuisance even if it gets a
bit rampant. The named cultivars spread less rapidly. Page:
http://www.paghat.com/ranunculusficaria.html

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

Ranunculus
 

I don't have any experience with them, but I found 2 pots of them on the
clearance rack at Lowe's yesterday, and I just HAD to have them, LOL! I
planted them in my garden today, and they look beautiful! I'm hoping they'll
last awhile...sure puts some instant color into the yard:)

Good Luck with yours:)
Angie



"McFadden57" wrote in message
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Does anyone have growing tips or experience with ranunculus?
Are they easy to grow?
Should I start them indoors (I am in Vermont)
Thank you.

Ranunculus
 

I don't have any experience with them, but I found 2 pots of them on the
clearance rack at Lowe's yesterday, and I just HAD to have them, LOL! I
planted them in my garden today, and they look beautiful! I'm hoping they'll
last awhile...sure puts some instant color into the yard:)

Good Luck with yours:)
Angie



"McFadden57" wrote in message
...
Does anyone have growing tips or experience with ranunculus?
Are they easy to grow?
Should I start them indoors (I am in Vermont)
Thank you.

Ranunculus
 

is there a Ranunculus that is known as "flora pleno"? I had a plant that
loved a damp place that had these awesome little minature bright yellow,
waxy looking flowers that were no larger than my thumbnail. It would throw a
couple three daughters to runner from the central mother plant. I gave
starts of it away until one spring it never returned for me. There is a
single variety that is wild around here, but it was a deffinate double that
I was told by the agricultural extension agent that it was a creeping
Ranunculus, or true buttercup variety flora pleno. I'd LOVE to find it again
and get it reestablished. The flowers rose about six to 7 inches above the
ruffled leaves. . ...
madgardener
"paghat" wrote in message
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In article ,
(McFadden57) wrote:

Does anyone have growing tips or experience with ranunculus?
Are they easy to grow?
Should I start them indoors (I am in Vermont)
Thank you.

There are many species of Ranunculus. If you mean Ranunculus ficara, it is
easy to grow & can become a little weedy, but is so small & emphemeral for
early spring that it is hardly apt ever to be a nuisance even if it gets a
bit rampant. The named cultivars spread less rapidly. Page:
http://www.paghat.com/ranunculusficaria.html

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

Ranunculus
 

is there a Ranunculus that is known as "flora pleno"? I had a plant that
loved a damp place that had these awesome little minature bright yellow,
waxy looking flowers that were no larger than my thumbnail. It would throw a
couple three daughters to runner from the central mother plant. I gave
starts of it away until one spring it never returned for me. There is a
single variety that is wild around here, but it was a deffinate double that
I was told by the agricultural extension agent that it was a creeping
Ranunculus, or true buttercup variety flora pleno. I'd LOVE to find it again
and get it reestablished. The flowers rose about six to 7 inches above the
ruffled leaves. . ...
madgardener
"paghat" wrote in message
...
In article ,
(McFadden57) wrote:

Does anyone have growing tips or experience with ranunculus?
Are they easy to grow?
Should I start them indoors (I am in Vermont)
Thank you.

There are many species of Ranunculus. If you mean Ranunculus ficara, it is
easy to grow & can become a little weedy, but is so small & emphemeral for
early spring that it is hardly apt ever to be a nuisance even if it gets a
bit rampant. The named cultivars spread less rapidly. Page:
http://www.paghat.com/ranunculusficaria.html

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

Ranunculus
 

yeah, rub it in that we have idiots running our nursery this year at the
Lowes lawn and garden I work in................you talking the larger ones?
I'm talking the smaller more wild flower variety that I'm looking for I used
to have in Nashville and three years here...........I GOTTA quit sharing so
much of things I adore. a little is fine but to share all but one and to
lose the one----------
madgardener knowing she will always share :)
"junkyardcat" wrote in message
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I don't have any experience with them, but I found 2 pots of them on the
clearance rack at Lowe's yesterday, and I just HAD to have them, LOL! I
planted them in my garden today, and they look beautiful! I'm hoping
they'll
last awhile...sure puts some instant color into the yard:)

Good Luck with yours:)
Angie



"McFadden57" wrote in message
...
Does anyone have growing tips or experience with ranunculus?
Are they easy to grow?
Should I start them indoors (I am in Vermont)
Thank you.

Ranunculus
 

"madgardener" wrote in message ...
is there a Ranunculus that is known as "flora pleno"? I had a plant that
loved a damp place that had these awesome little minature bright yellow,
waxy looking flowers that were no larger than my thumbnail. It would throw a
couple three daughters to runner from the central mother plant. I gave
starts of it away until one spring it never returned for me. There is a
single variety that is wild around here, but it was a deffinate double that
I was told by the agricultural extension agent that it was a creeping
Ranunculus, or true buttercup variety flora pleno. I'd LOVE to find it again
and get it reestablished. The flowers rose about six to 7 inches above the
ruffled leaves. . ...
madgardener

I think I have that growing in my garden......:-)) It grows and grows.
I have been tearing it out... Let me know, and I will send you some...
Susie (in Ohio) :-))

Ranunculus
 

Around here the indigenous ranunculus are referred to as 'swamp buttercup'.
Charming flowers.

Dave

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"madgardener" wrote in message
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is there a Ranunculus that is known as "flora pleno"? I had a plant that
loved a damp place that had these awesome little minature bright yellow,
waxy looking flowers that were no larger than my thumbnail. It would
throw a
couple three daughters to runner from the central mother plant. I gave
starts of it away until one spring it never returned for me. There is a
single variety that is wild around here, but it was a deffinate double
that
I was told by the agricultural extension agent that it was a creeping
Ranunculus, or true buttercup variety flora pleno. I'd LOVE to find it
again
and get it reestablished. The flowers rose about six to 7 inches above
the
ruffled leaves. . ...
madgardener

I think I have that growing in my garden......:-)) It grows and grows.
I have been tearing it out... Let me know, and I will send you some...
Susie (in Ohio) :-))