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Post by 4pygmies on Oct 5, 2007 13:42:53 GMT 1
I was telling Sweetie about these but thought you might all be interested..I saw a clump of Mexican Sunflowers recently and they are gorgeous! I have never seem them before. They are a bit like a cross between an English Marigold and a Sunflower - big flowers, nice bushy habit, very long lasting and apparently a magnet for butterflies and bees. After a bit of googling I found them on Chilterns Seeds website: www.edirectory.co.uk/pf/pages/Default.aspThey are very poor photographs of them, the clump I saw was 3'/4' tall and still smothered in flowers and buds last week. I shall send for them anyway! |
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Post by 4pygmies on Oct 6, 2007 11:27:55 GMT 1
Sorry about the link....dunno why it didn't work - yes, they DO look like Gerberas - very nice indeed!
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Post by 4pygmies on Oct 6, 2007 11:55:23 GMT 1
On the bush I saw - about 2-3". Very pretty and a nice velvety texture.
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Post by 4pygmies on Oct 11, 2007 7:58:23 GMT 1
But lots of them  |
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 15, 2007 16:26:15 GMT 1
They do look gorgeous, Im going to get some! Chilterns you said.. |
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Post by 4pygmies on Oct 15, 2007 16:29:26 GMT 1
I did! Can you post the link dearie - I want some too.......TA!
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 15, 2007 17:00:06 GMT 1
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Post by 4pygmies on Oct 15, 2007 17:26:27 GMT 1
Chortle...thanks though....shame to just send for them, might have to have a leetle look round.......
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 15, 2007 17:43:37 GMT 1
Chortle...thanks though....shame to just send for them, might have to have a leetle look round....... Seems sensible to me ;D |
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Post by 4pygmies on Oct 15, 2007 17:45:17 GMT 1
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Post by 4pygmies on Jan 10, 2008 9:02:15 GMT 1
Just noticed that T&M are selling Mexican Sunflower seeds in the Special Offer section - buy 2 packets, get another free - at £1.49 each, I think that's very reasonable. The list is P118 in my catalogue (Tithonia rotundifolia).  |
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Post by debbiem on Jan 10, 2008 10:39:02 GMT 1
just the name in itself is beautiful - 'Mexican Sunflower', it conjures up images of orange and red for me - I'll look them up. |
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Post by bogmyrtle on Jan 10, 2008 11:01:14 GMT 1
Thanks 4pygmies, those will fill a gap in our garden quite nicely, just need to work out if I have room for the seeds to grow somewhere! Some sorting out to do!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 10, 2008 18:19:15 GMT 1
I've got some (I hope) from the RHS free seed list....as long as I was in time....
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 22, 2008 22:22:47 GMT 1
Got 'em... Now I just have to wait until the end of March to sow them...I'll have to sit on my hands : |
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Post by maggyd on Feb 22, 2008 22:45:57 GMT 1
Cheery I think you have more seeds than Thompsons ;D They look a cross between a gebera and a dahlia to me.  |
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Post by 4pygmies on Feb 23, 2008 8:19:29 GMT 1
You're not wrong there Maggyd. ;D I saw them growing in a friend's garden last year and they were really gorgeous - a nice big, tall clump and with such a nice texture to the flowers. He was impressed with how the flowers kept coming, it was late September when I saw them and they were still covered in blooms. Very nice.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 2, 2008 20:19:49 GMT 1
Anybody know when we should sow our mexican sunfower seeds? April?
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Post by 4pygmies on Mar 2, 2008 20:22:34 GMT 1
It says February to March on my packet Cheery - away you go! ;D
"Place in a propagator with a temperature 20-30C. Do not exclude lght, germination will take 7-21 days. Transplant seedling into 3" pots. Plant out after all risk of frost in well drained soil in full sun spacing plants by 30cms"
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 2, 2008 20:32:59 GMT 1
;D
mind you...will I have room?...who cares...I'll sow them anyway.
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