Re: Glaucium Flavum
- Subject: Re: Glaucium Flavum
- From: T* a* M* R*
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 08:39:56 +1300
Cali Doxiadis wrote:
>
> Dear Nan--
> --I just saw a photo of yours on a google image search. This is a plant
> I've seen thriving wild near beaches in Corfu but never managed to
> nurture in garden or controlled wild conditions. This year for the
> first time I've had seed germinate in the cold frame, and they're just
> at the point when they need transplanting. Should they be put in pots,
> do you think, or straight into the ground in semi wild conditions? Some
> shade or full sun? Once a week watering? My assistant in Corfu is
> awaiting instructions, and I don't want to blow it again this time!
> Thank you
Cali
Forgive my butting in, but I found some information about the culture of
this plant in a very old but prized book of mine on annuals. (Annuals in
Colour and Cultivation - T.C. Mansfield 1949)
Of Glaucium he says "really biennial, but grown as an annual in the
garden in any soil in a sunny place". So it doesn't sound as though it
is very fussy does it? I suppose if happy it might then self-seed, but
the usual month for sowing it is apparently April.
It grows on local beaches here (a real cosmopolitan, eh?) and I did once
transplant a couple of small wild plants to my garden, but while they
did establish themselves and flower they didn't leave any seedlings
behind.
I hope your exile doesn't have to last much longer. I don't know how you
can bear to leave that lovely home and garden of yours even for a little
while.
Moira
--
Tony & Moira Ryan
Wainuiomata NZ,
where it's Summer in January and Winter in July.
