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Wallflowers
Tradition has it that we plant them in October, then pull them up in spring
(whenever that is!) to make way for bedding plants. But there is one wallflower that looked so good one year that we left it - I think about 3 years ago. It is now my favourite plant to grace the patio, and getting better every year ftp://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.co...wallflower.JPG Is tradition all wrong? Care suggestions? Lol |
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Wallflowers
"Lol" wrote in message ... Tradition has it that we plant them in October, then pull them up in spring (whenever that is!) to make way for bedding plants. But there is one wallflower that looked so good one year that we left it - I think about 3 years ago. It is now my favourite plant to grace the patio, and getting better every year ftp://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.co...wallflower.JPG Is tradition all wrong? Care suggestions? Lol Sorry, got the link wrong: http://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.c...wallflower.JPG |
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"Lol" wrote in message ... Tradition has it that we plant them in October, then pull them up in spring (whenever that is!) to make way for bedding plants. But there is one wallflower that looked so good one year that we left it - I think about 3 years ago. It is now my favourite plant to grace the patio, and getting better every year ftp://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.co...wallflower.JPG Is tradition all wrong? Care suggestions? Lol I have two wallflower plants that must be 7 years old now and they look (and smell) brilliant. Tina |
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Lol wrote:
It is now my favourite plant to grace the patio, and getting better every year ftp://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.co...wallflower.JPG I think you meant http://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.c...wallflower.JPG It's very nice. Is tradition all wrong? Care suggestions? I left some in last year, and they are flowering away now, but they are looking a bit on the leggy side now. |
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But no reason at all why you can't keep them going (especially if you have the odd one or two rather than a whole bed of them - you can see why you'd want to heave them out if you had a bed of a couple of hundred plants), especially if you trim back straggly growth after flowering. |
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Wallflowers
On 12/05/2010 16:15, Lol wrote:
wrote in message ... Tradition has it that we plant them in October, then pull them up in spring (whenever that is!) to make way for bedding plants. But there is one wallflower that looked so good one year that we left it - I think about 3 years ago. It is now my favourite plant to grace the patio, and getting better every year ftp://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.co...wallflower.JPG Is tradition all wrong? Care suggestions? Lol Sorry, got the link wrong: http://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.c...wallflower.JPG That's gorgeous! If I were you, I'd be trying to get cuttings (seeds may not come true) and see how they develop. If they make good plants, you could sell them, or the rights to them. How long is the flowering season? That is a lovely colour; not one I've seen yet in the perennial wallflowers (Erysimum). -- Spider from high ground in SE London gardening on clay |
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"Spider" wrote in message ... On 12/05/2010 16:15, Lol wrote: wrote in message ... Tradition has it that we plant them in October, then pull them up in spring (whenever that is!) to make way for bedding plants. But there is one wallflower that looked so good one year that we left it - I think about 3 years ago. It is now my favourite plant to grace the patio, and getting better every year ftp://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.co...wallflower.JPG Is tradition all wrong? Care suggestions? Lol Sorry, got the link wrong: http://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.c...wallflower.JPG That's gorgeous! If I were you, I'd be trying to get cuttings (seeds may not come true) and see how they develop. If they make good plants, you could sell them, or the rights to them. How long is the flowering season? That is a lovely colour; not one I've seen yet in the perennial wallflowers (Erysimum). -- Spider from high ground in SE London gardening on clay Selling the rights to plants? Novel idea that, but I think that if even if I were the one who designed and created plants, and owned the rights, I wouldn't need money! True? I'm just pleased to be able to enjoy them. Lol |
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Wallflowers
Lol wrote:
"Spider" wrote in message ... On 12/05/2010 16:15, Lol wrote: wrote in message ... Tradition has it that we plant them in October, then pull them up in spring (whenever that is!) to make way for bedding plants. But there is one wallflower that looked so good one year that we left it - I think about 3 years ago. It is now my favourite plant to grace the patio, and getting better every year ftp://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.co...wallflower.JPG Is tradition all wrong? Care suggestions? Lol Sorry, got the link wrong: http://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.c...wallflower.JPG That's gorgeous! If I were you, I'd be trying to get cuttings (seeds may not come true) and see how they develop. If they make good plants, you could sell them, or the rights to them. How long is the flowering season? That is a lovely colour; not one I've seen yet in the perennial wallflowers (Erysimum). -- Spider from high ground in SE London gardening on clay Selling the rights to plants? Novel idea that, but I think that if even if I were the one who designed and created plants, and owned the rights, I wouldn't need money! True? I'm just pleased to be able to enjoy them. Unlikely to be profitable for anybody outside the trade, anyhow...and I think Sacha will testify that it involves quite a bit of hassle per penny even for a professional. But I think all wallflowers are perennials: it's just that their habits make it easier to treat them as biennials for most garden purposes. I took one from the ruined walls of Reading Abbey, and it grew on, quietly neglected, for a few years in West Wales till age and other plants overtook it. If you don't feed yours, and dead-head rather severely after flowering, it should go on pleasing you; it's lovely now, but I think it will get too straggly, and cross the vague boundary between informal and scruffy. But you can take cuttings of side shoots in, I don't know, probably July. I've never done it with wallflowers, but one of my books says "heel cuttings": if you haven't got a book, nice people in this newsgroup will fill in the details. -- Mike. |
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