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Mixed Lobelia - I'm very confused??
Hello everyone, long time no write - pc got a virus but I am back at
last. :-) I'm a bit confused at the moment. I bought some trailing lobelia plugs from Wilco's and potted them on, as you do. The label said they were mixed and with this I assumed this just meant that each plant when in flower would be a different colour and they would vary between pale blue, dark blue, magenta and white. I quite liked the idea of pot luck and taking the lucky dip style of planting out, not knowing what I would get and not being able to colour coordinate the baskets, tubs as I usually do each year. Imagine my surprise when the plants began to flower and have two or three different colours to each plant! One plant has white, dark blue and magenta flowers. Am I to understand that mixed colours now means quite literally that you get different colour flowers on one plant? When / how long ago did this come about? I must've been asleep I think. ~Any comments gratefully appreciated from a very confused Gail! |
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The lovely big pelagonium I bought recently turned out to be 4 small ones all planted together to make more of a show. No loss to me, a few weeks and they will all be big ones. |
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Mixed Lobelia - I'm very confused??
trin writes
The lovely big pelagonium I bought recently turned out to be 4 small ones all planted together to make more of a show. No loss to me, a few weeks and they will all be big ones. That's very common. Big bushy poinsettias are often just a ring of single rooted cuttings. With plants that root easily, like pelargoniums, it's great as you get several plants, but with plants that need a little more tlc, you often find that one or two of the cuttings die off. Of course, to the great majority of people it doesn't matter - I recall reading somewhere that the majority of potted plants that are bought are simply thrown out when they've finished flowering. It's only eccentrics like us who try to keep them going for next season ;-) -- Kay |
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