Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Seedy Subjects! => Grow From Seed => Topic started by: Diane Whitehead on December 04, 2017, 08:03:03 PM
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I'm making up a list of seeds to order from Chileflora.
When I was there, I admired several species of Nolana.
I love blue flowers, and seeds of several species are on offer.
I can't find any information about growing them, though.
The only mention of one here was just a name in a list of seeds in 2008.
Is anyone growing any?
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Not many growing them I don't think - but doubtless somebody here is doing so!
Perhaps this may help a little : http://www.sacha.org/Nolana/Nolana_supplement.htm (http://www.sacha.org/Nolana/Nolana_supplement.htm)
This at least shows the habitat they grow in : http://www.sacha.org/Nolana/Nolana_supplement.htm (http://www.sacha.org/Nolana/Nolana_supplement.htm)
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Thanks for that link, Maggi.
Now that I'm thinking more about the ones I saw, they were all growing along the coast,
so likely won't be hardy for me, or won't like my winter rain. Oh well, I can grow them in pots
which can be sheltered in winter.
further thought: I was there because they had had winter rain, so the desert was flowering.
So I might not even need pots.
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Diane,
Like you, I love blue flowers and have grown nolana Bluebird in the past - this is, i think, described as a half-hardy annual in UK seed catalogues and makes a nice flower for summer tubs and baskets. It never overwintered for me, even when I lived in the south of England. I have never tried any of the Chileflora species, oh dear, I can feel a new seed order coming on.....