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Allysum Golf Mix


Allysum Golf Mix

I sowed these Fast Flower pelleted seeds on 6th February 2013. Today the plants are as good as ever. There was pale pink, white and this darker shade of flowers. The pale pink and white are long gone.



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These pink ones look like the un-named phlox I bought from Lidl last year, Scotsgran.
I wonder if they had the wrong label on mine?

7 Feb, 2014

 

The allysum is an annual, the phlox is a perennial Mouldy. I'm no expert but I have posted a photo of an alpine phlox. If you look at the leaves they are longer and narrower than the allysum leaves. The single flowers are held aloft on their own thin stems. The allysum seems to have bunches of flowers on each sturdier stem. I hope this helps. Maybe if you have a photo of your plant someone might give a positive id.

7 Feb, 2014

 

I can see it better on the library computer, Scotsgran and, this photo being so much larger than my phone screen, I can see the obvious differences. Lol.

7 Feb, 2014

 

Onwards and upwards. This was my first experience of using pelleted seed. I got 380 seeds for £1.60 which seems a lot but it was swings and roundabouts. They worked out not any more expensive than the non pelleted ones as I could sow them direct in the ground without worrying about having to thin the majority out.

7 Feb, 2014

 

I tried something in pellet form last year, but my daft neighbour killed them, when he sprayed air-freshener around them.
I can't recall what they were.
I've noticed that some summer mixtures come in seed strips.
The seeds are placed between two strips of biodegradable paper at appropriate distances, then sealed into the strips.
I might buy a packet of them, if the seeds I saved don't produce.

8 Feb, 2014

 

I read you can make your own strips from kitchen paper stuck together with wallpaper paste, that might be something to try. well done you for saving some seeds. What did you save?

8 Feb, 2014

 

Oh, what didn't I save? Lol.
Sweetpea, nasturtium, aquilegia, marigold, lavender, lobelia, blah-blah...
Funny you should mention wallpaper paste, as I was thinking of having a go, next year, using a thin porridge solution...less chemicals.

9 Feb, 2014

 

I think the recommendation was an anti fungal wallpaper paste. I wonder if anyone has tried it?

10 Feb, 2014

 

Maybe with wallflowers?
Oh, c'mon...I'm working with what I've got. Lol.

10 Feb, 2014

 

Lol.

10 Feb, 2014



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