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I didn't want to steal the thread on trumpet vine, so I'm posting these pictures that I took this afternoon of the grass near one of my rose of sharons - can't believe that you don't get any seedlings! This is only 1 small area... Even after mowing they keep going, and going, and going... I don't know how I'm going to pull all of these out!
close-up... anyone wanna come get some?
* * * * Lynne's knitting journal "I'm spayed, declawed, and housebound - how's YOUR day going???" Plants: 17066 | From: Rockland County, NY | Registered: Nov 2003
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Wow, Lynne, I never see that many seedlings around my ROS shrubs. I tend to be a little obsessive about pinching off spent flowers to avoid the self-seeding plus pruning them in late summer eliminates the dried seed pods before they open. You might try vinegar or boiling water to eradicate the little jewels?
My two favorite "Althea" ROS's are sterile and don't produce seeds. Maybe that is the type Alan is growing?
* * * * Rosie z7a Plants: 745 | From: Tulsa OK | Registered: Oct 2005
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That's amazing...I get absoulutely none...not one...nothing. Not that I'm complaining, though. It looks like you could start your own ROS nursery!
quote:Originally posted by alankhart: That's amazing... It looks like you could start your own ROS nursery!
So, Alan... how much do you think I could charge a piece?!? I just picked probably about 50 or so, before Don mows them down while cutting the grass! I would have gotten more, but the sweat was pouring off of me...
For now they are in a jar... They have a long skinny taproot.
* * * * Lynne's knitting journal "I'm spayed, declawed, and housebound - how's YOUR day going???" Plants: 17066 | From: Rockland County, NY | Registered: Nov 2003
| Seeded: 69.125.135.161
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Pot them up and by next spring they should be well rooted and ready for planting. You could get a few bucks each, don't you think? :-) Or you could give them to your neighbors, friends, family, people walking down the street, the mailman, the meter reader, your hairdresser....
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I tend to be a little obsessive about pinching off spent flowers to avoid the self-seeding plus pruning them in late summer eliminates the dried seed pods before they open. You might try vinegar or boiling water to eradicate the little jewels?
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