Plants know best.

[shelagh]

A good few years ago we saw Satureja spicigera also known as Winter Savoury on the show bench at a late summer show.  We immediately bought it and potted it on. In fact Brian mentioned it in his article on small shrubs for 'The Rock Garden'.

 Well to call it miffy was an understatement, it did nothing.  Eventually Brian popped it in to the rock garden where it did moderately well.  However it has seeded itself and you can see the results, but who would have thought of planting it there

[Maggi Young]

One is tempted to think the plants do this sort of thing deliberately, to both keep us on our toes and show us that we're not as clever as we might like to think!

From the behaviour of many in plants in our garden, primula, allium, meconopsis, for instance, you'd have to draw the conclusion that there is no better seed bed and growing position than a gravel path, or the space between the glasshouse  glass and edging  -and lets not mention the success from seeding in the glasshouse sand plunge !

In calmer moments we do think ourselves lucky that they're growing at all!! The rest of the time it's just pure frustration. 


PS - if you'd like to send a seedling of the Satureja up here, I'd be happy to report on its habits in the North East!!!