Like many people who love plants and gardening, and indeed the person behind the wonderful #SixOnSaturday, I love propagating plants and growing them from seed from packets, saved from seed heads or given as presents.I'm going to start with these 2 Rudbeckias in a small pot where they ahve been for the last 2 years at least. I bought a packet of Rudbeckia seeds which promised they would be dark flowered. I think they were Cherry Brandy, half hardy, but they have survived at least two winters and look fabulous.
The next flowers are Cleomes, first seen at a friend of my daughter's house last summer. Her plants were beautiful, and at the end of the summer, she gave me some seeds, fifteen germinated, and are really quite good in an ethereal way.
Next up Marigolds called Kees Orange, they came in a packet, and I think I got them from a seed swap, they say 2017 seed collection, but plant by 2020, so quite a few came up. They grow to 60cm which is lovely, I do like large marigolds.
The next choice is some Ixia, I love these flowers, and although I bought this plant, it has grown quite a bit bigger and has self seeded into another pot, that plant is also flowering, but doesn't look as good as these:
The final two are not grown from seed, but looked good this morning, the first is Papaver romneya which I saw growing politely in the gravel garden at Special Plants, this one looks lovely, but is a thug and travels all over the area where it has been planted.
My last choice came from East Lambrook Manor where the late Margery Fish started a wonderful garden. The nursery attached to the garden has a great range of plants including this one, Convolvulus althaeoides which was restrained in the beginning, and now, three years on is becoming rampant. I do like the pink flowers and grey leaves, but wish it would not range quite so far.
Here's the collage of the six:
I'm now off to have a look at the Propagator's six, and I'll put a link to his blog here:
https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2020/07/18/six-on-saturday-28-07-2020/
he always has interesting thoughts on his six. Also some fantastic plants, this week's stand out for me was the green glad. Fab.
Rain forecast tonight, we do need it.
https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2020/07/18/six-on-saturday-28-07-2020/
he always has interesting thoughts on his six. Also some fantastic plants, this week's stand out for me was the green glad. Fab.
Rain forecast tonight, we do need it.
I started my gardening when I was a second grader living in a New York City apartment and I bought a packet of dwarf French marigolds at the supermarket. I grew them and they even started to flower on a western window sill but they eventually succumbed to spider mites. But marigolds, ever since then, have held a special place in my heart and I enjoyed your marigolds. I have not tried rudbeckia and it's been years since I've grown convolvulus. Yours are a pretty pink.
ReplyDeleteMarigolds are glorious, I have grown 3 lots from seed this year, they big orange ones, some called 'naughty marietta' and some tiny lemon coloured ones. Rudbeckias are lovely, and the convolvulus is a thug but the flowers and leaves are a lovely colour.
Deletelovely! i like those red rudbeckia, i've never had any luck growing them from seed, usually fail to germinate or fail soon after. i did have one that i bought but that lasted a couple of winters then was no more. i should get some more, i like them a lot.
ReplyDeleteThey are fab, you can buy 'Cherry Brandy' as plug plants usually in the spring, I haven't tried that, but might try is those don't survive the next winter.
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