I responded to this earlier. I don't understand how my comment dissapeared? I have never grown lasiocarpum. My Stylophorum diphylla takes up about 3 ft. wide and tall. I want to move them further back because they're big, and the shade and obscure some shorter, more special epherals. After they bloom, Stylophurm look drab. I didn't know lasiocarpon existed until I read your headline. Can Stylophorum take full sun? I hope you don't mind me divertng, but is there anything special that you do, when you germinate pasque flower? I've attempted growing Pasqueflower from seed 3 times. I wouldnt grow wood poppies in my little garden, because it would be a nightmare. I grow it at a another residense. Is lasiocarpon native to the UK? Is there a species jn England that has the name Wood Poppy?

I did absolutely nothing out of the ordinary to germinate the pulsatillas apart from clean the seed, removing the little tail (pappus?). I sowed them in October from seed from a fella in the Czech republic. Will look up his details, Jay.

https://wildflowerseeds.eu/

I am fairly ambivalent about the stylophorum (Chinese) - they look to me like they have the capacity to seed around insanely so I think they are coming out. I really want hylomecon. Glad I have grown them though. Common names are always a bit...mutable and there are heaps of 'poppies' but I vaguely recall growing something from a free packet calling itself a wood poppy (think it was Chinese and had a long forgetable name - will think hard.

Like Jay, my clumps of Stylophorum diphylla are about 3 foot wide; not quite that tall, though, maybe 1.5-2 foot. I didn't expect that, I thought they'd kinda stay these cute little ground-huggers with pretty yellow flowers but oh no they don't. If grown under idea conditions they are lush and quite attractive, so I don't mind, but I really do have to keep an eye on the re-seeding. Just ripped some out of a clump of peony I moved yesterday.

ETA: S. diphyllum is native to the U.S.

I grew Stylophorum diphyllum many moons ago when I was a beginning gardener - I too thought they were cute little things that would brighten up my shady yard. I had them for about two seasons and they died out on me.

So you are obviously doing something different (better) than I was lol. Or maybe the lasciocarpum is different - I'm not familiar with it. But I do admire your willingness to send things to the compost heap. Such a hard thing to do for me, no matter how unsuited the plant is for its spot!

:)

Dee

My daughter has recently acquired an allotment (dunno why, she has a large garden) and she has gone quite overboard (as you do) sowing dozens of varieties of veg seeds. I had to practically twist her arm to not attempt to shoehorn all the seedlings into every bed...honestly, she must have had 150 tomato seedlings, 100s of sweetcorn, at least a dozen types of curcubits. I managed to persuade her to offer the spares to other allotment people but no way could she manage to put anything in the compost.

She will learn...eventually, We have all been there...and if space is just not available, there really is no other option (but she is going to have to work this out herself, I think).

Oh, it IS a curse lol!

When I first read your line - honestly, she must have had 150 tomato seedlings, - my first thought was ...yeah....??? So...??? Lol! That's only a slight exaggeration. As you know (and pointed out lol) I too usually end up with about 90 tomato seedlings, much as I try to restrain myself while sowing, but at least I guess I do realize I don't really need 90 tomato seedlings... although that never seems to stop me...

It's so hard for me to discard a living plant. I don't even thin my lettuce lol. Case in point - I'm just on my way back outside to pinch my cosmos. And I think I am going to stick the pinched-off parts into potting mix. Because apparently the 472 or so seedlings I have aren't enough. And then I have to pinch my 463 zinnia seedlings. Sigh. It's a curse....

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Dee

Hmmm, came home from my allotment fuming because every single salad green has been eaten...every bloody one. And yep, all the spares (I allowed myself a mere 24 to plant) have been chucked in the worm bin. So...now have to start over so I dunno...I was planning on successional sowing but looks like the first set are now history.

Looks worryingly at the mere 30 or so cosmos seedlings, (having filled 2 trays with 15 x 7cm pots in each). Tagetes are off the menu this season cos of snail munching although I did at least chuck the remainder of the seeds around the plot in random places. I really have to be firm with myself because THERE IS NO SPACE WHATSOEVER, Already stacking smaller pots on top of larger ones in shaky towers.

I only have 48 zinnias (and have promised half to my youngest).

I do, however, have nightmare recollections of attempting to tie in, pinch out, weed, water, nip out every single side shoot of the 60 tomato plants I thought I could manage. A complete chaos of multiple stems (cos you only have to miss one side shoot) and a daily horror for weeks and weeks...and then, the gallons of sauce to make and freeze. I can now get by perfectly well with 8 or so well grown plants in the greenhouse...and even then, by late October, I am sick of them.

Well, rosa, hopefully you'll be as proud of me as I am of myself lol. I went out to pinch my cosmos and I did NOT save the pinchings! Chucked them all in the compost pile! I had this thread on my mind as I went out there, and as I sat on my driveway pinching my 400+ wintersown cosmos seedlings told myself how ridiculous it was to save them, that I didn't have time to babysit them and see if they root, and even if they did, WHEN would I plant them and WHERE? It's not much, but it is progress lol. Baby steps...

Now on to my 400+ zinnias and 100+/- dahlias...

It has been so rainy and cool here lately though, and under almost every milk jug I moved yesterday in my pinching extravaganza, was at least one slug. It's going to be a slugfest out there, so I am expecting some losses. I can see some damage in the milk jugs already. Time to get some cheap beer and gives those disgusting little critters a happy drunken demise!

:)

Dee