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Just curious what flowers have reseeded in your garden this year. My most prolific reseeder this year is echinacea or purple coneflower. They're showing up everywhere! I dug up 10 seedlings and planted them in pots to plant elsewhere this fall. Other flowers to reseed this year are california poppies, several types of rudbeckia, breadseed poppies, bachelor buttons, coreopsis, four o'clocks, celosia, morning glories and portulaca to name a few. For the most part I usually leave them wherever they happen to pop up unless it's just too crowded.
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lesson i learned 10 annuals ya plant once calendula cosmos sunflower larkspur love in a mist MG poppy sweet assylum nasturtim flowering tobacco
I agree with 4 pms have some down almost 100 ft of fence and a few yellows in them too when go dormat will be thinning the tubers and spreading out in yard hear spider flower/cleome is 1st yr to grow both kinds...queen& sparkler.prefer sparkler. assylum can now find all over yard.did not just stay where i planted& don't care for it.a large bed of iris will grow like mad too new growth on tubers plus seeds falling out
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I have about 400 cones but i haven't had any problem with them reseeding because i had a thick layer of mulch. They just can't grow thru the mulch;also, i don't let the dead flowers seed to the ground. I deadhead them and throw them on the burn pile. I might leave some in the fall for the birds though...
The flowers that have reseeded themselves for me would be : 1) Black-eyed Susans 2) Cleome 3) Yarrow
None of them have been a pest yet. I did spray some yarrow with round- up at the beginning of the season because it was beginning to wonder a bit, but it was multiplying from the roots, not from seed.
* * * * Bob
Plants: 640 | From: in my garden | Registered: Jan 2003
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sunflowers tomatoes and morningglories have my vote for top seeders i had some pansies come back too, and you are right they do seem to come back healthier and stronger the next year, oh and i also have pumpkins, summer squash and onions that came back. i found out that if you plant green onion seeds in the fall they will come up right away in the spring.
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I forgot about the squash, pumpkin and watermelon seeds, etc. and my tomato plants, from my compost bins.......................... They over winter and sprout inside the bin come spring, I pull them out and repot, they can be tricky as that time of year is cold for them and being in the bins they're light sensitive. But I've gotten reasonably good at saving them. Those new little greenhouses my mom and I got will be the little trick I think that will save more of them this coming year.
Also,that is why I never put in weed seeds or roots into my compost bins... Cause they survive... seems no matter how hot it gets
I have read about the seeds that plant themselves from the momma plant are suppose to be able to adapt themselves to their surroundings, something genetic or something or other. Which makes them hardier than the momma.... Weezie
* * * * Weezie
Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2
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i also heard that chamomile is supposed to reseed, i hope it does, i planted some in my sunflower house this year for the first time, my luck it won't because i want it too.
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