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Title: Dicentra peregrina
Post by: Steve Garvie on June 13, 2016, 11:00:41 PM

Dicentra peregrina -the selection Hien
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7522/27042382654_04504b6856_o.jpg)

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7472/27043510133_7b46ef330f_o.jpg)

Title: Re: Dicentra peregrina
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 14, 2016, 02:47:06 AM

Oh my!!!

Title: Re: Dicentra peregrina
Post by: ranunculus on June 14, 2016, 06:56:10 AM

Oh my! Oh my! Oh my!   Fantastic plant, fabulous photograph.

Title: Re: Dicentra peregrina
Post by: astragalus on June 14, 2016, 04:27:26 PM

Where and how do you grow this beauty?

Title: Re: Dicentra peregrina
Post by: Steve Garvie on June 14, 2016, 07:49:58 PM

Many thanks!
I grow this plant in a clay pot which is plunged in a sand bed within a sunny well-ventilated alpine house. The compost is a very mineral mix of 50% pumice: 20% gritty silica sand: 20% perlite: 10% sphagnum peat. Even in Scotland some shade is required on hot sunny days. Last year the plant set a small amount of seed which was sown in October; the seeds germinated about 6 weeks ago. Any advice on managing the seedlings would be most welcome.

Title: Re: Dicentra peregrina
Post by: Maggi Young on June 14, 2016, 07:53:49 PM

Don't rush to prick out the seedlings...... Feed weekly when you water....