Guess my Batchelor button question should not have been posted on this message board..opps! sorry..How does on remove a posting?

Bachelor Buttons are a very easy annual to WS, they are among the earliest to sprout too. The seeds are very cheap, I think most dollar-store seeds would have bachelor buttons as part of their varieties. If the deer eats them you can replace the plants for very little money if you WS them.

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Bachelor Buttons germinated and grew well for me until I planted them out in the garden. They seemed to be a big favorite of the rabbits. I imagine deer would love them, too. The BBs were tough, though. They kept regrowing from almost nothing. They did well, in spite of the bunny abuse, in a tough sandy, dry location. This year I hope to get some chicken wire fencing around them. Hope that will keep the bunnies out and give the plants a chance to flower more.

My friend had the prettiest clump of blue and lavender ones, so they must self seed in the right conditions.

I've only grown the blue, but it didn't come back or, if it did, got crowded out by regular daisies that grew crazy lol. I mean way too thick.

Mine got pretty tall and flopped over, so maybe it's good to cut them back although I think it might ruin the effect.

I finally found some seeds for some lavender ones and picked up some blue ones in bulk from American Meadows. Guess I'd better WS some of the blue and save the purple because I want to broadcast them in a wildflower mix I put together.

Thanks for the reminder. Where ARE my blue seeds? Haven't seen them. Found them. They're in a cloth bag that is just marked "Wildflowers", and I thought they were seeds I didn't want.

Now if somebody would just tell me what I did with the iris seeds I saved and can't find, looked all over. I wanted to see if they would sprout by WS'ing. That was what I wanted to WS first. So frustrating.

Bachelor buttons grow TOO well for me. I pull them up by the hundreds where they have reseeded. They seem to be on a mission to take over. I like the way they look blooming with the poppies but I'm going to limit the amount that go to seed this year.

I have direct sown bachelor buttons as well as winter sown some. My winter sown babies were devoured by birdies...but I had an absolutely HUGE gorgeous patch of mixed colors when I direct sowed. I would say they grow rather quickly ... they were the first to sprout and the first to bloom and went all the way until frost. :)