#23 - Random Seed Casting in the Hebe Garden

This post should be avoided if you are a traditionalist, or of a nervous disposition.  I highly recommend that you do you, and take no notice of the madcap things that I do like the following.  There is no guarantee that it will work, but I like to live on the edge.

I have so many packets of seeds, and not enough time, or indeed places to sow them all that I decided to take a different approach and view in that it was kinder to give them a chance of life if I simply broad cast the seed and see what Mother Gaia gifted me.

So to the Hebe Garden (it is the bed top right of the garden in which I planted a Hebe hedge hence the name)  I trotted with my folder and threw out the contents of the following packets.

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Larkspur (Delphinim Consolida) 'Cannes White' - Hardy Annual - Seeds from Plants of Distinction - Cutting flower but attractive to slugs though; makes good confetti when the flowers are dried - Sow in January/April and August/September (clearly, I am ignoring that!)

Pot Marigold (Calendula Officinalis) 'Calexis Mixed) - Hardy Annual - Plants of Distinction NB: link and photo are for 'Galaxy Mixed' as their code for my packet 1219B is no longer available on their website, so this is just to give you .. and me if they germinate ... a helping hand and guide to what to expect. Sow May/September likely to flower in May/October.  Fantastic for infusing in oil to make lotions and potions.

Antirrhinum 'Potomac Ivory White F1' - Half-hardy Annual - Plants of Distinction - Sow February/May - ignoring that and hoping for an Indian Summer - should usually be ready I think about 10 weeks after sowing for platting out.

Larkspur (Delphinium Elatum) 'Double Stars' - Plants of Distinction - Likely to be a slug magnet and dries well for confetti. - Hardy Perennial - Sow January/April, August/September flowering May to September.

Lupin (Lupinus Polyphyullus) 'Summer Carnival' - Plants of Distinction - I would love this to pay off, if not just for these beauties. - Perennial - Sow January/June and August/September. Flowers June to August.  If you do this properly, you would transplant in the garden when the pots are full of root.

As an aside, my 'Russell Mixed lupins sewn earlier in the year are doing very well.  Actually, so well that I have given some away to my darling mother-in-law and also to one of my lovely neighbours.  I am desperate to get the bed dug over by the new side fence - my son is hopefully going to fill in the post holes for me at the weekend to save me some heavy work).  My neighbour came over to pick up her Lupins as said she loved my garden.  Although, I am not sure if she had already hit the sherry bottle because there is to my eye so much wrong with it, with way too many areas yet to do, weed, blah blah blah.   Bless her for saying it, it gave me a boost.

Some seedlings labelled up Shasta Daisy were slung in the white butler sink late last summer after the temporary greenhouse was shaken up in a storm and the seedlings landed in a heap.  They have long been on my radar to move, but it only just dawned on Hebe Garden also.  Managed to finally get my potatoes in - will post about that struggle separately, and helped my son pot up his Torbay Palm (Cordyline Australis) that he rescued (with the permission of the garden owner of course) from a garden he was working on.

Ohh and just because I have zero to sub-zero control, I also have a purchase, and other things on my radar that are proving difficult to forget from the nursery trip yesterday.

Let's take a break there peeps, I threw more down, but will cover those in a further post, and then try to keep you updated as we do along.  I think if any of the Larkspur come through and I get to them before the slugs, I might dig them up and place in pots to keep an eye of them.