Aquilegia seeds - too late to plant??

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05/07/2009 07:54 PM	In reply to
bogweevil Location: Joined on: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 2,043	Reply \| Contact If only you could sow a row of carrots and have them come up year after year. Sadly not, one year's seeding etc, etc only applies to weed seeds that produce enormous numbers of seeds and have complex dormancy mechanisms to ensure staggered emergence over many years. Seeds of garden plants have had the dormancy bred out of them, at least in part. Also seeds differ in longevity - delphiniums barely last a year, cabbages at least seven. I have no idea how long aquilegia seeds last. Boggy Beware the bat-eared bogweevil

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If only you could sow a row of carrots and have them come up year after year. Sadly not, one year's seeding etc, etc only applies to weed seeds that produce enormous numbers of seeds and have complex dormancy mechanisms to ensure staggered emergence over many years. Seeds of garden plants have had the dormancy bred out of them, at least in part. Also seeds differ in longevity - delphiniums barely last a year, cabbages at least seven. I have no idea how long aquilegia seeds last. Boggy

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