Re : perennials true from seed

Title: Re : perennials true from seed
Hi Lynn,
I dont' know any book about perennial plants sowing. I do a lot of sowing each year with the free seeds one can get from the various societies (NARGS, HPS, RHS and the french ones) and I'm improving the methods year after year, I learn with the alpine list and I pick out articles from differents sources and almost with my friends' experiences.
Here is a list of plants true to seed (from The Garden) :
Barbarea vulgaris 'Variegata'
Tous les semis présentent une panachure jaune variable

Calendula officinalis 'Prolifera'
Ils ont tous des fleurs 'satellite ' (un anneau de petits fleurons entourant le fleuron central)

Clematis recta 'Purpurea'
Chaque semis sera fidèle, mais sera plus ou moins pourpré

Daphne mezereum 'Variegata'
Chaque semis aura le feuillage typique, moucheté de blanc

Delphinium Black Knight Group
Tous les semis seront fidèles si autofécondation

Euphorbia marginata
Toutes les plantes auront des bractées panachées de blanc

Geranium wallichianum 'Buxton's Blue'

Geranium pratense f. albiflorum

Hedera helix f. poetarum
Tous auront les fruits jaunes

Helleborus argutifolius 'Pacific Frost'
Chaque plant aura un feuillage moucheté de blanc

Geum 'Mrs J Bradshaw'
Tous auront des fleurs doubles rouge vif

Humulus japonicus (panaché)
Tous les semis devraient être fidèles à partir du moment où le pied mère est panaché

Lavatera arborea 'Variegata'
Tous les semis seront fidèles à 100% s'ils sont bien robustes

Lunaria annua 'Variegata'
Tous seront panachés s'ils sont robustes

Nicotiana langdorsffii 'Cream Splash'
Chaque semis est vert d'abord puis développe des éclaboussures qui deviennent marginales ensuite, comme le pied-mère

Potentilla nepalensis 'Miss Willmott'
Tous sont rose vif

Ruscus aculeatus hermaphrodite
Les semis sont hermaphrodites à 100%, c'est-à-dire qu'ils produisent des fruits rouge vif sans l'apport d'une autre plante à proximité

Sorbus
Plusieurs espèces sont apomictiques et sont donc, par conséquent, fidèles de semis

Viola sororia 'Freckles'
Elles auront toutes des fleurs tachetées de bleu et de blanc

I'm sorry but Its translated in french because it's a text that I used for the perennial plant department in SNHF
I hope it will help you; but, generally, the cultivars are not true to seed, except for those mentioned above, and perhaps somebody else knows more.
I would like to thank everybody for the answers about the grasses books. Surerly I'll buy the rick Darke's one.

Chantal
Ermenonville, France zone 7
Just noticed the snowdrops are open, I must leave my computer to have a walk around the garden, I'm sure plants are already awaken and think spring is coming!

De : Lynnlamb@aol.com
À : perennials@mallorn.com
Objet : Re: Ground cover for Dry Shade (open shade)
Date : Mer 10 jan 2001 15:01


Thanks to all who have answered my question about dry shade. This is an area
at the end of our driveway with 2 very old, very large oak trees in it
already. It is NW exposure. The area slopes down to the road, so I was
going to put something vining, like the variegated vinca maybe, on that part.
I would love to have the epidideum with its coppery colored leaves. You
have all given me lots of ideas to pursue.
BTW, what do most of you do when you need a large number of individual
plants, like a flat of something, without spending a fortune?? Most mail
order catalog list 1qt. or 1gal. sizes, which are great for a few, but if you
need to cover a large area as I am trying to do in this driveway bed I don't
want to buy tons at that price. I am considering trying seeds this year for
some things although I have never grown perennials by seed. Is there a good
book/website out there on perennials by seed and which come true and which do
not?
Lynn
Zone 7b
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