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Véronique Macrelle

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Re: Germinating now- - photos of seedlings
« Reply #1260 on: January 09, 2022, 07:25:52 AM »
thank you Tristan, this is very precise. This opens up the prospects for a new type of seedling.
 I will test as soon as I have orchid seeds.
 I suddenly remember that last year I also planted Dactylorhiza elata [/ i]. maybe it will bloom this year.

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Re: Germinating now- - photos of seedlings
« Reply #1261 on: January 09, 2022, 08:04:30 PM »

 oh! Gaël's poppies, it's so cute! they look like hairy heads! in which region are the poppies already germinating now? it's not too early?

I'm in the east of England. I've never noticed them doing that before. Those are just some seedheads on the opium poppies that I didn't get round to tidying up - I am glad that I left them as they do look fun and I am interested to see how long they last before freezing/drying out kills them. It has been very damp here and they are in a sheltered spot so have avoided the frosts so far.
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Re: Germinating now- - photos of seedlings
« Reply #1262 on: January 21, 2022, 06:34:11 PM »
Second year growth of Massonia bredasdorpensis
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Re: Germinating now- - photos of seedlings
« Reply #1263 on: February 24, 2022, 04:36:20 PM »
Paeonie seeds are sprouting

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Re: Germinating now- - photos of seedlings
« Reply #1264 on: March 10, 2022, 04:46:59 AM »
I should be starting a new topic called "Not Germinating Now and Never Likely to do so!" Because I am soon to be moving house and garden, I have been tidying assorted drawers, shelves and piles of paper on the floor. I am shocked to have found many packets of seed, batches in margarine pots and various other containers and even some seeds still encased in their original capsules. There are more than 100 different kinds. Was I just lazy and didn't get around to sowing them? Did I get distracted and did something else instead ? or perhaps at least some are the result of having been taken off the job such as a couple of occasions when I went into hospital. Some packets are labelled with the year 2014 so perhaps it was a bit of all these causes of what has been shameful neglect and waste.  So more in hope than with the expectation of real results I have put the lot into a box and as soon as the move is complete I'll sow the lot, a few likely candidates in individual seed pots and the less likely ones in trays in a hotch potch mixture and hope that something  comes of it all. I'll need about 4 trays each big enough to  take the equivalent of 20 or more packets. Something may germinate or nothing may germinate, time will tell.

I mention this now because in today's post, there came a little packet of seed of one of the Australian Celmisia species, C. saxifraga. In case he reads it here, I would like to assure the sender that his precious seed is already sown and placed in a cool place, ready to join other seed pots for the journey north in a few weeks.
Lesley Cox - near Dunedin, lower east coast, South Island of New Zealand - Zone 9

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Re: Germinating now- - photos of seedlings
« Reply #1265 on: March 23, 2022, 08:38:49 PM »
Bergeranthus Vespertinus from the seed exchange 2021-2022 germinating, sown about a week ago.
And I wanted to have a few seedlings of buddleja Davidii, so just before pruning the schrubs a couple of weeks ago  I have sown some seeds.  The result ... I can plant an entire forest of Buddleja if I want.
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Re: Germinating now- - photos of seedlings
« Reply #1266 on: March 31, 2022, 08:26:28 PM »
Dianthus microlepis from wild seed
Hepatica nobilis
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Re: Germinating now- - photos of seedlings
« Reply #1267 on: April 02, 2022, 02:11:04 AM »
In my search for other colour forms of Clivia miniata, I bought three packets of seed from red, yellow, and peach/pink flowered plants. They were sown as soon as they arrived on November 24th. This is how the red and yellow seedlings look today.

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I am looking forward to what these red flowered plants will produce. The pigmentation at the base and underside of the leaves,is very strong.

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The yellow seedlings have been much slower to develop, and the leaves are decidedly narrower than the red seedlings. I only had a single seedling from the peach/pink seed lot, but it is growing well. Given some time,I hope each plant will add to our current display

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Re: Germinating now- - photos of seedlings
« Reply #1268 on: April 03, 2022, 12:01:03 AM »
Nice, healthy clivias!

- Aetheonema membranacea
- Anthemis cretica ssp. carpatica
- Codonopsis clematidea:Left-seed scratched into surface+grit. Right-seed covered+grit
- Lupinus argentea - wild seed from Colorado
- Rindera sp.
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Re: Germinating now- - photos of seedlings
« Reply #1269 on: April 03, 2022, 12:02:47 AM »
- Salvia canescens var. daghestanica
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Re: Germinating now- - photos of seedlings
« Reply #1270 on: April 03, 2022, 10:52:21 AM »
Nice, healthy clivias!


- Codonopsis clematidea:Left-seed scratched into surface+grit. Right-seed covered+grit


So it prefers to be surface sown then. Observations like this are very useful - thanks!
Carolyn McHale
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Re: Germinating now- - photos of seedlings
« Reply #1271 on: April 03, 2022, 05:06:26 PM »
Lewisia cotyledon sown December 2021.
Physoplexis comosa second year seedlings.
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Re: Germinating now- - photos of seedlings
« Reply #1272 on: April 03, 2022, 06:30:26 PM »
Lewisia cotyledon sown December 2021.

Sorry you only had so few seeds, Mike!!!  8) ;D :D ;)
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Re: Germinating now- - photos of seedlings
« Reply #1273 on: April 04, 2022, 11:09:30 AM »
Sorry you only had so few seeds, Mike!!!  8) ;D :D ;)
Maggi, I collected the lewisia seed & misplaced them, found them back end of the year dried out & thought sow them anyway.
Within a couple of weeks the whole lot had germinated.  Seems seed does not always have to be fresh. 
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Re: Germinating now- - photos of seedlings
« Reply #1274 on: April 04, 2022, 11:26:43 AM »
Reinforces my opinion, Mike- "if in doubt, sow it" !!  :D
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