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.

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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/

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.

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.

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
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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/

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
news
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/

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.

"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) :-))

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) :-))