Re: Platycodon seeds

In a message dated 2/11/02 8:12:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, nlowe@hotmail.com writes:


in my climate, at least, they don't like full sun,
the seeds do well when planted as soon as they are ripe,
they like lots of organic matter to germinate in,
or, it's one of those gardening puzzles that just doesn't make sense!
My experience is just the opposite, Nancy, but I'm in a cooler zone (6a Cincinnati).  I planted one or two platycodon a number of years ago in a bed in the middle of the field that gets full soon, sunrise to sunset. Most years I do mulch this bed sometime in early summer or so, and I think before the platycodon have bloomed.  I now have them all over this bed, although in the early years the deer thought they were delicious, but their tastes changed and they've left them alone in recent years. I think they're all blue, a few are double or semi-double although the original plants were not. They are not spreading as rapidly as the liatris, or Rudbeckia 'Goldstrum', but they are increasing.  I use the shredded "black gold" type of mulch bought by the cubic yard and trucked in. That must be a comfortable place for the platycodon seeds.

Bill Lee
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