Re: Self-seeding perennials
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Self-seeding perennials
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 00:38:08 EDT
In a message dated 5/13/00 11:54:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
maridube@teleport.com writes:
<< The little weed with the exploding seed heads sounds like it might be
Little Bittercress. It is a cool weather annual and just goes bizerk here!
I spend more time pulling this weed than all the rest put together.
===>Yes, Marilyn, that is apparently what it is. It matches what Marge had
posted in her Suite 101 article. Here we've had near-summer temperatures and
dryness for a month, so the seeds have already exploded. At least this plant
does die down for us in the summer.
You are joshing us that Ladies Mantle & Nicotiana sylvestris don't seed
all
over the place in your garden, right? :)
Nope! Not kidding at all. I have had the same three plants of Ladies Mantle
for three years; no seedlings. In previous plantings, same results, even
after 15 years! And no nicotiana sylvestris seedlings at all. Marge said we
may be too cold for the seed to live over. Maybe I should gather in the fall
and save until spring for sowing. I might try that this year if my source
for N.s. still has it this year.
Boy I wish the Allium christophii
would self sow like the Allium schrophaleria (sp?) and the annual Poppies! >>
===>I do get some self-sowing from annual poppies, although less this year
than in the past. My first planting of them was three years ago when I
sprinkled seed over a couple inches of snow in January. Poppies all over the
place. We didn't have much snow or cold this past winter so maybe that's why
I don't have as many seedlings this year.
Bill Lee
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