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Spring Bulbs

Let the leaves die back naturally Emma. Some people take the dead flower heads off to stop them wasting energy making seeds but I don't. 

Growing Lavender from seed

I could have planted them last year but didn't get round to it. They're about 4" high and quite bushy. Glad I didn't plant them, they wouldn't have liked all that wet then cold. I've put the pots in the cold greenhouse through the worst of the wet and cold. They've been in and out several times since October.

change soil?

Hi

Cat poo is unpleasant for us but won't hurt the soil, there's always something sh...ing in the garden, that's nature. Weeds need digging out if they're invasive perennials or digging in otherwise. 

What are you going to grow?

Growing Lavender from seed

Hi Ryan, welcome

Just had a look at my records and I sowed Lavandula angustifolia in March last year. But that was a different sort of March. I'd wait til it gets warmer. Sow them in seed compost with a bit of extra grit mixed in and some grit over the seeds. water them, not a flood. I use those unheated propagators. They keep the moisture in. The grit on top keeps the moisture in as well. I don't use any extra heat, all seeds are in a cold frame or the cold greenhouse.

Hope this helps. I have failed with lavender seeds sometimes without knowing why. Last year's were successful though.

Seeds are up

I've been saying 'it can't stay this cold much longer' for weeks now Dove. I haven't done any of my spring sowing yet

Californian Lilac

They go pretty well in alkaline soil as well.

Seeds are up

Aquilegia viridiflora up. It's a bit dark in the greenhouse today with all that snow on the roof. Might have missed some

Talkback: Growing hellebores from seed

Hi woo, all those seeds that germinate after a chilling, Angelica gigas, a couple of daphnes, euonymus, rosa rugosa. These are up. About 20 of something or other, still waiting for some.

Ranunculaceae, apiaceae, and primroses etc all do well like that and lots of shrubs.

 And in the middle of winter I sowed all the aquilegias, now germinating, some codonopsis, various strange things I found in the Chiltern and Plant world seeds catalogues.

Talkback: Growing hellebores from seed

Talkback: Growing hellebores from seed

Severe cabin fever here Woo.

All the over-wintered seeds are germinating and it's time to prick them out and set the spring ones. It's a cold greenhouse and right now it's very cold.

The map

Toms in the cold GH

wild cherry, what's up with it

deep pink epimedium

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Aquilegia discolor

When will I learn?

Does anyone recognise this

What have I got here?

iris unguicularis

seed swap mark 2

good effect of a wet summer

Aldi garden stuff

daffs gone blind

Can't garden so reading the books