columbine seed
- Subject: columbine seed
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:05:33 EST
In a message dated 10/29/02 12:38:08 AM Eastern Standard Time, Meum71@aol.com
writes:
>
> Most Columbine seed need a cold period to germinate well, so sowing now
> would
> work out good. If some of the seeds germinate now in your climate they
> should live over the winter without a problem-the small plants can take a
> lot
> of cold.
>
> All good advice. Aquilegia canadenis is native here and produces tons of
> seed and many plants each spring entirely on it's own.
>
> The old "Granny's Bonnets" which emerge either pink or blue, some really
> good blues, are never planted here. The seed falls to the ground and the
> plants ermege fall or spring. Unless you have an species requiring some
> special treatment, columbines seem to be self seeding and resent
> transplanting. If you seed some perennials now expecting spring
> germination, it is a good idea to mark the spot with some kind of marker
> lest one forgets and pulls out the seedlings in spring for weeds. It is
> good to remember, also, that they all germinate in their own time frame so
> some will come on much later in the spring or early summer than others.
>
> Claire Peplowski
> NYS z4
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