Every year I seem to spend a fortune on Pansies for my baskets and wondered if it was possible either to save my own seeds or do you take cuttings?
If so when would I start thinking about doing it?
Have looked on ebay for seeds but can't find any , anyone know who sells them. I am not keen on thompson and Morgan as the only plants I ever ordered from them were dead!!! ;D ;D
I expect this is another intelligent question from Chas ;D ;D xxxxx
I saved some seed from my black pansies a few weeks ago..erm maybe actually more like six/seven weeks ago.checked yesterday to see if there were anymore and Id missed the boat,all the pods had burst. Sorry to say but you may be a bit late?
I grow all my pansies from saved seeds but I collected all the seeds some weeks ago. They do very well too!!
http://www.mr-fothergills.co.uk/search/pansy
try fothergills at the link above..sorry I havnt got any spare to send you,family and friends have been at my seed tin already and snaffled them all!
Couple of companies that stock some..
http://www.plantsofdistinction.co.uk/acatalog/A-Z_of_Flowers_PANSY.html (http://www.plantsofdistinction.co.uk/acatalog/A-Z_of_Flowers_PANSY.html)
http://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/seeds/pages/page10.htm (http://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/seeds/pages/page10.htm)
We got lots from lidl last year, in spring, very reasonable seeds :)
Also, we save our own, if we can get to them before they spring open ;D
Also, our seeds from the year before had self seeded all around the parent plant so we just transplanted them where we needed to
Thank you everyone have just ordered these Pansy Matrix F1 Sunfire Mixed From Nickysnurseries Thank you goodlife for the link.
Will try next year and get the seeds off the plants.
X Chas