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Post by andy on Mar 8, 2008 10:11:38 GMT
Ever thought of having your begonias in hanging baskets so you leave the cills free for trays? Only got a few pendula ones and nowhere to hang them really |
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Post by Tig on Mar 8, 2008 11:26:20 GMT
My bergamot have started to appear  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2008 12:27:20 GMT
Well, a couple more cornflowers have germinated, but I don't think any of the Agastache are going to make it  ... and it doesn't look as though there'll be any more geraniums ... cheers ... |
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Post by Ladygardener on Mar 8, 2008 15:10:36 GMT
I too am delighted at how we  ll the seeds are germinating, here is the 12 week stock sown 16th feb and here is the night scented stock sown only 25th feb and put in the greenhouse  |
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Post by Shrubrose on Mar 8, 2008 18:27:04 GMT
Lovely LNG! Stocks are beautiful aren't they and they smell wonderful. |
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Post by Tig on Mar 8, 2008 19:18:29 GMT
Looking good lng, I have some stocks which will get sown later on when I get my mini-greenhouse up (hopefully in the next few weeks) This afternoon has been spent filling up the windowsill in the front bedroom! As well as the 2008 Trials seeds, I have also sown Cobaea Scandens (4) Lobelia colour cascade (8 small pots) Nicotiana Sylvestris (8 small pots) Onto floor space next  x Tig |
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Post by andy on Mar 8, 2008 20:16:52 GMT
Sowed my nicotiana sylvestris today. LNG...that night scented stock will be in flower by easter  ...don't usually sow mine until mid april as it grows so fast. Of course you could sow a second batch for later flowering plants |
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Post by Tig on Mar 8, 2008 20:50:25 GMT
Isn't it fine seed Andy, one deep breath and it would have been all over the carpet! Would it be better to mix it with some sand? I have plenty left if this first lot don't show. Tig
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Post by Ladygardener on Mar 9, 2008 8:31:06 GMT
Thanks everyone. I love the smell of stock too Shrub. Tig, I've had no luck at all with nicotania. Hope you do better than I have Andy, I've still got more to sow for later in the year, am delighted with the result |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2008 19:43:20 GMT
With very limited success last year - only the sweet peas came to full successful plants, I am trying again this year with Lavender Cyclamen Cosmos Poppies Poached eggs Proper names & types really aren't my thing  Have small cheapy propagators from Asda & proper compost this year - keeping my fingers crossed. |
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Post by Dutchy on Mar 11, 2008 18:39:38 GMT
The Nicotiana sylvestris is in and so are the Zinnia elegans, Cobea scandens, Veronica, Quamoclit and mixed Sweet peas.
Things have started YEEEEEEEEEEAAHHHH.
Oops
With the bad weather right now it feels as if I have sowed Summer.... ;D
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Post by Ladygardener on Mar 11, 2008 18:40:57 GMT
Good luck Genie and Dutchy. ;D
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Post by Chuckles on Mar 12, 2008 23:16:24 GMT
Since I last posted on here I've sown Lupin Russel Hybrids Abutilon Agastache Pink Poppy Dierama Monarda Larkspur Mixed Convolvulus Panarama Mix For the 2008 Trials gardenworld.proboards103.com/index.cgi?board=2008trialsNicandra Physalodes Sunflower Velvet Queen Sunflower Little Leo Sunflower Titan Sunflower Black Sunflower Small Dark Red Sunflower Total Eclipse |
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Post by Tig on Mar 12, 2008 23:43:24 GMT
I am sooo trying to be patient! (naughty Chuckles tempting me again!!)
Wish these winds would blow over ;D then I can get my mini-greenhouse up and sow some more! x Tig
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Post by Amo on Mar 13, 2008 7:33:16 GMT
Is it only my nicotiana sylvestris that comes up patchy or does everyones? I have some leave 3 mm across and some like dust. How you supposed to prick that out??
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Post by Dutchy on Mar 13, 2008 8:39:59 GMT
The hard way ;D
Just leave them in until some are bigger then the rest around them.
Nicotiana grows into a huge plant so out of all the seedlings app 9 will be enough for your garden.
I usually way until there are that amount of larger ones and then prick those out ( throwing away the smaller ones attached to them, it's a bit of a fiddle with the roots but not too hard ). I leave the rest in the tray as they will grow on and you can later prick out more big ones either to replace or to give away.
Leaving the tray you will find new ones continue to come up well into May.
Just keep the soil slightly moist.
The little rabits/Nicotiana can be pricked out and out and out.
And yes they always came up patchy for me but I ended up with surplus plants every year so far.
My Zinnia and a Malva sylvestris are showing growth. Quick ones these.
No Nicotiana yet but then I only sowed Sunday.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2008 13:00:52 GMT
Which Malva Sylvestris did you sow Dutchy? I did 'Magic Hollyhock last year, they were incredibly easy and now I have three plants in the garden showing lots of new growth - definitely the purplest purple I've ever seen. Went on a bit of a seed-buying spreee yesterday, but this is definitely it: Aquilegia 'Sweet Rainbows' (T&M Kew collection), hope they do better than the Chocolate Soldiers; Euphorbia Amjilassa (also T&M Kew - destined for shady horrid bit in the back, and for the front raised bed) and Campsis Radicans (eventual replacement for Eccremarcarpus, since the latter is supposedly 'short-lived') ... will be sowing these today or tomorrow ;D ... cheers ...
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Post by Dutchy on Mar 13, 2008 18:16:18 GMT
Magic holyhock is what I sowed got the seeds from here. Can't remember whom from  If only my brain would work  Might have been Jlottie. I had not realized they are more than annual. How long will they last? Like real Hollyhock? That would be lovely and very purple ......Or did you by any chance send them to me? Better try and find some reliable marbles this year. |
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Mar 13, 2008 19:29:16 GMT
I am sooo trying to be patient! (naughty Chuckles tempting me again!!) Wish these winds would blow over ;D then I can get my mini-greenhouse up and sow some more! x Tig I've set up my mini pvc GH in the conservatory ;D as it has 4 shelves it holds llooooooooooooooaaaads of pots.... ;D |
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Post by Ladygardener on Mar 13, 2008 19:30:09 GMT
good for you CPB there'll be no stopping you now ;D
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2008 12:54:56 GMT
Sounds like a great arrangement, CPB A few more hardy geraniums and perennial cornflowers have decided to emerge ;D ;D Sowed Euphorbia and Aquilegia yesterday in unheated mini-prop; will stay in hall for two weeks and then go outside to give the Euphorbia its required 'cold spell' (I don't think this'll bother the Aquilegia any) ... sowing Campsis Radicans today ... cheers ... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2008 16:15:32 GMT
Dutchy, I'm sorry, you're not the only one with marbles going missing ... no, I certainly didn't send you the Magic Hollyhocks ... but, yes, they are perennial, although I've no idea how long-lived they are. Last year I sowed them in April, they started flowering in July and continued until end/October. The flowers look like purple velvet ;D ;D ;D ... cheers ...
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Post by andy on Mar 14, 2008 16:55:59 GMT
Marigolds sown today ;D
Just got allysum snowdrift to sow and night scented stock both at the end of the month.
Hopefully off out to get my blue petunia plugs in a week or so too.
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Post by Ladygardener on Mar 15, 2008 6:40:58 GMT
my calendula and poppies are both doing well
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Post by Tig on Mar 15, 2008 11:16:25 GMT
Lobelia are all showing well now, need a bit more sunshine to get the rest going!
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Post by Dutchy on Mar 15, 2008 12:01:14 GMT
Thanks CC. Purple velvet eh? Sigh. With all this sowing seeds I feel things are well on their way but when you actually look at things they are still so minute. Got a bit of a depression going here. Worked all morning on the bldy Groei en Bloei Vechtstreek website. Got all the messages, pictures and the agenda on and the bldy auditors still have not fixed the links problem. All I did is there but invisible to normal mortals Sorry, seed thread, not winge, but I got carried away. There now are three magic seedlings taking a chance at life ;D and the sun is coming out so I am off to do some Soul refitting |
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Post by Rosefriend on Mar 15, 2008 13:31:24 GMT
Finally one Clematis Intergrifolia has germinated...just waiting for the other 5 now.
RF
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Post by Amo on Mar 15, 2008 20:38:08 GMT
Erm... I've lost the plot at the moment. Lots of re shuffling going on in GH due to cold frame. I now have room for the prickings! ;D
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Post by purplejulia on Mar 15, 2008 22:57:43 GMT
Finally got round to planting some flower seeds in trays. I have about 30 packets as I can't resist buying them whenever I go shopping at supermarkets, Wilcos or GCs. I even buy on ebay. Today I planted: Lobelia - sapphire pendula Poppy Himalayan Blue Morning Glory grandpa otts I am not very good at looking after seeds in trays - I have put them by the french windows in the back room.  PJ |
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Post by andy on Mar 16, 2008 11:33:57 GMT
My nicotiana sylvestris is up this morning....sowed on the 8th march ;D It's been sitting on the fish tank lid in the conservatory so it's nice and warm.
First batch of NS stock is up too....that only took 3 days to come up despite the seed being 4 years old !!!!
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x Tig
...don't usually sow mine until mid april as it grows so fast. Of course you could sow a second batch for later flowering plants 
If only my brain would work 
