I have recently (approx 6 weeks ago) built a rockery and have about 15 flowers in it. They were purchased ready grown (not too large) and most are growing fine bar 2 of them. The first is the pulsatilla vulgaris. It flowered about 4 weeks ago and had a small flower similar. The plant looks pretty healthy but i'm suprised the flower died so quickly. The stem still looks healthy! Any advice? Secondly is the Primula denticulata which did look like this: http://pharm1.pharmazie.uni-greifswald. ... 2-1071.jpg (however it was white). Now the the flower is dead and so is the whole stem and it is now a dead yellowy shade of brown. I cut the stem diagnally (it really looks comletely dead - i could have snapped it), was this the right thing to do? Any advice? Both plants, as i've already said are on a rockery seen here: http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j47/m ... arden7.jpg and if you look right at the back you can see quite a large round white flower, thats the denticulata . There are also quite a few weeds on it now but I have pulled out any big ones and all the ones close to the flowers any advice would be great. It's taken me ages to get the garden where it is, doing it mainly for my great aunt and i'm trying to get it to a stage where it wont need much work. Finally with the rockery instructions i was given i was told to lay turf upside down in the rockery, which I did, and now it is growing through and some of it through the middle of plants. It actually looks quite good but could this 'steal' the nutrients and kill the other flowers? Thanks in advance guys and girls MB!
I dont know but #1 looks like its reseeding itself or producing seeds. Wait until its brown and looks like its dead and deadhead it, place in a clear plastic bag and shake. If theres seeds in there, they will fall out. Be sure to store in a dry place (not plastic bag) until you sow them. As for the rest, I just dont know. Keep us updated! Cant wait to see more pics of it all as it grows! Looks great so far!
I looked it up and found this site http://www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plan ... ?code=B350 In there it states the following Noteworthy Characteristics: Pasque flower is a low-growing, clump-forming, early spring-flowering perennial which grows 9-12" high and as wide. 5-sepaled, anemone-like, goblet-shaped, solitary flowers (2-4" across) appear atop thick stems in April before the foliage develops. Flowers vary in color from blue to reddish purple with a bushy center clump of golden yellow stamens. Foliage begins to develop as the flowers fade and features fern-like, deeply cut, basal, grayish-green leaves (3-6" long) and smaller stem leaves. Buds, stems and leaves are conspicuously silky. Flowers give way to feathery seed heads which are quite showy. Formerly known as Anemone pulsatilla.
Thanks for that - very helpful. I forgot to mention i am a VERY new gardener, if i can call myself a gardener at all. so the pulsatilla vulgaris is, by the sounds of that website, fine. If and when it turns brown and dies i will de-head it and shake for seeds but.. - When I de-head it how far down should I cut? Just under the head? the whole stem if it's all dead? Thanks again
Hmmmmm....I would cut just the head first then snip the stem. That way if its not so easy to cut, you dont lose any of the seeds while the head is being jerked around. As for being a new gardener, Im only a 2nd yr gardener so Im fairly new myself. Im finding that its alot of trial and error on the path of gardening. Good luck!
