Liatris: From Seed to Flower | Perennial Garden
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- It's not too early to start thinking about collecting Liatris seeds and getting even more of this gorgeous purple perennnial in your garden.
Here's how we do it here in Denmark (get your coffee filters ready).
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I love the coffee filter for seed saving idea. I will be using that.
Hope it works for you like it has for us 🥰
The bulb is called a corm for Liatris. I bought a bag of corms which will soon be planted. Love your garden. You are excellent at explaining garden tips. Thanks for sharing.
Super excited for your liatris. Hope they grow super well for you 💜
Where did you buy your corms?
@@jujubee7351 We buy them from a local plant center called: blomsterverden.dk/
Thanks for showing us this, we just love Liatris but dont have any in this garden, something that will soon change! They look lovely in your borders 👍
Thanks so much, guys! We love them. The bees love them. All around winners. And easy to collect seeds - so get one and you’ll have free plants in no time 🤓
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One of my favorite flower in the garden Liatris is always give a beautiful looks in the summer.
Really does! And ours are just starting to bloom - the bees are so excited 🥰😉
That's one beautiful garden.
Thank you for watching! Hope you and yours are enjoying a wonderful holiday season :)
thank you for sharing, this was a great help for me and my new Liatris!
Thanks for watching! I hope it helps :)
These are native plants in my zone(5A) they are actually invasive and grow quite aggresively. Beautiful nonetheless.
So interesting! They are beautiful for sure.
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My mid-June experiment: I dug up a second year plant thats maybe 6 inches high and hasnt grown a stalk yet, and separated the offsets from the corm, some root (not much, just a little) came with each plant. Maybe I should have waited until fall but I want to see if it will put its energy into simply growing a corm for each offspring plant. I dont even care if they dont make a stalk, but maybe if each plant develops a corm during summer they will be stronger next year, plus the corm is edible apparently.
You have to come back and let us know how the experiment went!
I'll try to remember. The transplants are in dappled shade/half sun and I make sure the soil never completely dries out at least for 1-2 weeks while they adjust. They are supported to be very hardy. Day lillies are also very hardy btw. I like that quality so Liatris is also becoming my favorite quickly. I have to remember to divide the corms I the fall. Also, my rhubarb. Need a laundry list of reminders :) I am using very mild compost water made from stinging nettle, and then are in very rich soil, I excavated 1-2" of worm castings from the forest floor. Worms like to bask in the sunnier places of the forest under the leaves. And that's where the worm castings can be thick and it was not being used for anything, probably too many rocks which I removed. Anyways :) happy gardening!
@@georgejennings9959 YOU NEED A CZcams CHANNEL! Wow wow wow -- such an incredible process and such care you use. Love it!
@@perennial-gardenThanks my home life situation takes on my absolute full attention (fulltime care for disabled son) but I try to help others through comments, thats the least I can do. And I find my solace in the garden its a way to get away from stuff, and be a part of growing life around me.
@@georgejennings9959 💚 You have our thoughts with you! And thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience in the comments. Hope you have a great gardening weekend ahead! All the best from us here!
I have about 50 stems. I picked the seeds from them and sprinkled them in the bed last year. I didn't see any new plants this year 😢
Ah! That's too bad.
Sprinkling them on the ground can be tricky and does require patience. But here are some reasons why you may not have seen new Liatris plants after sprinkling seeds in your bed:
- Liatris seeds often require a period of cold stratification (exposure to cold temperatures) to break dormancy and germinate. If the winter wasn't cold enough, or if the seeds weren't exposed to cold long enough, they might not have germinated. (If conditions weren't ideal this past growing season, they might still germinate next spring.)
- Liatris seeds need good soil contact to germinate. If the seeds were not pressed into the soil or covered lightly with soil or mulch, they might not have had the right conditions to sprout.
- It's possible that some of the seeds weren't viable, especially if they weren't fully mature when collected.
- If there were other plants or weeds in the bed, they could have outcompeted the Liatris seedlings for nutrients, light, and water. You could have weeded them away, too? (They look like small blades of grass when they first sprout.)
- Liatris can be slow to establish from seed. Sometimes the first year is spent developing the root system, and visible growth above ground may be minimal.
Hope that helps! I sure hope you can get more of this great plant tho! :)
After collecting the seeds, do you cut back the stalk or leave it on the plants?
I usually cut them back and then take the seeds.
I love liatris plants, I've grown them next to anise hyssop and phlox "nikki", you guys are so sweet, I'm in love with your garden,What zone do you grow in?
Thanks so much for watching! (And glad to meet a fellow Liatris fan!). Where we are in Denmark is like Zone 8a. We're on the east coast of the Jutland (the part of Denmark that connects to Germany and the rest of Europe).
We’re in zone 6 and it does great in our native garden. A must plant for beneficial bees, butterflies and beauty.
Liatris Spicata is a native plant here. They grow wild on the hillside near my house and they’re so pretty. They look similar to yours. Are yours Spicata?
It is, yes ☺️. In Danish we call it a “feather duster” - it does kinda look like one.
Seeing them grow wild must be gorgeous tho!
@@perennial-garden feather duster is the perfect name for it! That’s what I’m going to call them now lol
I just bought the bulbs and the ends look both as if they were the roots side - any way I can see the difference?
Find the smoothest side and plant that down - the sprout side should be a little more obvious, and that will go up. Hope that helps. Let me know if not 🤓
I would like to add this plant to my garden. Do you plant the bulbs in groups?
It's a gorgeous plant! I'd space the corms around 4-6″ (10-15cm) apart and the clumps 14-16″ (35-40cm) apart... or even more because they will eventually get to be quite large clumps that you can divide in the fall.
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My little seedlings are growing like little weeds
Mm
That’s super great to hear ❤️❤️