Flowers you just love to "HATE!"

about time john that means we must be due a upgrade and a break :D cerinthe seeds are doing really well, cheers john

 

Hi Bayleaf, nice to have you back.
I bet they filled the greenhouse with fluff when the seed pods opened.
They maybe still viable if you've kept them dry, which I bet you have.
They germinate very easily on the surface of damp sharp sand at about 25C, grow fairly fast as well.

 

Cheers Pete, Yep they certainly were flufftastic! have kept 'em dry - will give them a go

 

Posted by Kandyfloss:

Kandy. That is what the smell is about - pollination. It's a sex thing.

 

John we have enough with those damn flies with the fortnightly wheelie bin collections and all the maggots without having stinky plants attracting them,{the flies that is} :D and as for the sex thing don't mind if I do :D

 

With the stapelias you get the maggots as well Kandy, tiny ones, as they die very young from stavation, but they live long enough to pollenate the flowers.

 

What you do is open a bog garden and have loads of sarracenias which eat the flies as they are attracted.

Boy I should be a member of the Government with that spin. :D

 

:eek: Pete,I have had a whiff of one of those Stapelias years ago and the smell was disgusting.It put me off of them for life :eek: :rolleyes:

 

John my garden is very tiny,I have a North facing sloping border that gets boggy but would rather fill it with Ragged Robin and wild plants that enjoy damp conditions like Fritillaries
:D

 

The beauty of sarracenias is, Kandy, that it's not just boggy but the growing medium must have no nutrition All the food comes from those flies so you have to plant in peat for the acid, sand for the drainage, perlite to hold the moisture and sphagnum moss to do everything and hold the lot together. And my dad said I'd never make a gardener. Actually he'd kill me if he knew I wasn't growing ****** lupins. :D

 

Violets. I introduced a few into a border, and at first was pleased they spread so easily. and then they were everywhere. I've had a 3 year campaign to eradicate them

 

That cheers me up no end Beechleaf. LOVE violets just planted some Hope they spread like rabies.