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Common or garden.

Surely, when they are over, they don't grow again next season??

= Tim

Perennials and self seed/reproduce freely :) I have loads of them if you want some seed?

Kind, but what I need to know is - can I pull this year's out??

I save the seeds Tim & cut them down.

I leave mine in situ but husband is trigger happy with weeding and often thins them...but if you shake seed heads about if you remove, then you should have more next year.

forgot to say, only a few stay true though as they cross breed like no-ones business. So if it's one you like I'd keep it.

I cut mine down to the ground when they finish flowering and they come up again the following year. 

That's what my Wife says but, if you do, together with all the self sown ones, you soon have an impenetrable carpet of them, crowding all else out??

Quote from: tim on September 05, 2011, 16:44:49
That's what my Wife says but, if you do, together with all the self sown ones, you soon have an impenetrable carpet of them, crowding all else out??

You've got to be firm with them Tim and let them know who's boss.  ;)

I could lend you my hubby, he decimates them :)

Hi all,

I cut mine back brutally once they have flowered and the foliage starts to look weedy. They've now all grown a low crown of foliage and look really good. Self-seeded ones in the wrong place get uprooted and replanted. They are touch as old boots for such a delicate flower!

Love to all,

CLx

I have grown two large trays of them from seed ,sown back in the Spring  . The seed  packet said to plant out next year ... so I jolly well hope they DO come back  !    ::)   

Quote from: woodypecks on September 12, 2011, 18:37:50
I have grown two large trays of them from seed ,sown back in the Spring  . The seed  packet said to plant out next year ... so I jolly well hope they DO come back  !    ::)   

They will. I grew some last year and planted them out when they had filled 3" pots. We have quite a few different types that have been in the ground for years but I wanted to increase the range. Some even grow under trees where it is pretty dry and they are neglected.

Unwanted seedlings can be hoed through as they appear or you can transplant them.