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Perennials from seed

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  Posted by beth23 (U2505374) on Friday, 3rd March 2006

  Hello everyone! I'm on an exceedingly tight budget to fill a large garden from scratch and I want to save my pennies for buying decent shrubs. I've got some landscaping to do before I can plant, so I have time to wait for perennials from seed. What have people successfully grown this way? I've done verbascums, agastache and acanthus before and had some flowers in the first year - I'd prefer things that aren't too slow getting started. Any suggestions?

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  Posted by Slugger (U2316506) on Friday, 3rd March 2006

  Hi Beth. I've always found Thalictrum, Aquilegia, Echinacea, Heleniums and perennial Lobelias fairly easy to raise from seed, and thoroughly recommend the perennial digitalis lutea.
  
  You could also buy yourself a single penstemon and a perennial wallflower (Bowles Purple is a good one) plant fill your garden with cuttings from them - dead easy! Works with sage and rosemary too.
  
  Have fun!

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  Posted by Slugger (U2316506) on Friday, 3rd March 2006

  Dahlias can be a bargain too. Buy one corm now, plant it up and take shoot cuttings when they get to three inches or so. The origuanl will recover and you'll get loads of flowering plants from the shoots THIS SUMMER!

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  Posted by Toadspawn (U2334298) on Friday, 3rd March 2006

  Hello Beth
  I have grown many perennials from seed with varying degrees of success.
  Easiest seem to be Lupin, Delphinium, Hardy Geranium, Coreopsis, Primula, Lychnis, Geum, Echinopsis, Rudbekkia, Digitalis, Oriental Poppy, Grasses, Euphorbia, Dianthus, Matricaria, Aquilegia, Campanula, Potentilla.
  If you are lucky some will flower first year from an early sowing. Also some of the herbs will produce interesting plants in the first year and there is the benefit that you can use them in cooking.

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