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Flowers I want to grow but can't! - Veggie - 10-02-2023
I'd like a garden filled with sunflowers, poppies, cornflowers - nothing unusual there. However, I fail miserably with them all. The sunflowers end up about a foot tall with a flower no larger than a dandelion. Poppies that apparently self seed everywhere for others, put in a meagre show then disappear. Cornflowers, those bright blue flowers that are included in Easy-grow packets for children, are not so easy for an old biddy like me.
Am I alone or do others struggle with certain flowers?
RE: Flowers I want to grow but can't! - Small chilli - 11-02-2023
I’ve not had any success with stocks. The voles eat them before they can flower.
RE: Flowers I want to grow but can't! - JJB - 11-02-2023
I struggle with everything that's not a bean, tomato, courgette or corn. Hollyhocks always get rust, roses get black spot, asters come to now't, I've killed more clematis than I can count and I failed miserably with Californian poppies. The list is endless.
RE: Flowers I want to grow but can't! - Bren - 11-02-2023
I've got shrubs and some flowers that self seed apart from that I sow sunflowers, marigolds and a few nasturtiums not sure when I bother sowing nasturtiums because they pop up all over the veg beds.
Really I'd like more wild flowers but they never seem to grow.
RE: Flowers I want to grow but can't! - Farendwoman - 11-02-2023
Can’t grow ranunculus (very jealous of Scarlet’s beauties).
Mine always rot and shrivel.
Loads of other things that I always fail with too -
Dahlias, hollyhocks, Chinese lanterns, lily of the valley.
I could make a very long list - but it’s too depressing.
RE: Flowers I want to grow but can't! - Scarlet - 11-02-2023
Well at the moment my anemone bed has taken a huge hit with the frost - lost of those have rotted off
- and most of my greenhouse autumn sound hardy annuals have suffered too - every year has different challenges?Euphorbia- snow on the mountain - has proved very tricky for me. Not managed it yet!
Greenhouse seems to be a happy spot for fungis hnats at the moment. Always had some issues... but thoroughly cleaned out out again in September- pots are crawling with them.
RE: Flowers I want to grow but can't! - Farendwoman - 11-02-2023
Oh yes - like Scarlet, I lost most of my autumn sown seedlings.
Only survivors were sweet peas (hooray for those).
Got to think about a complete restart -though if my Market Days are over (see moans and groans!!) I shall need to scale it all down significantly.
RE: Flowers I want to grow but can't! - Scarlet - 12-02-2023
(11-02-2023, 06:39 PM)Farendwoman Wrote: Oh yes - like Scarlet, I lost most of my autumn sown seedlings.Give your table a little boost? Maybe try a few more expensive items along with your usual to fill up your table - invest in some secondhand vases for bulbs? Thinking of doing that myself. More cut flowers yourself?
Only survivors were sweet peas (hooray for those).
Got to think about a complete restart -though if my Market Days are over (see moans and groans!!) I shall need to scale it all down significantly.