tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post826070590166323739..comments2024-03-24T06:10:25.358-07:00Comments on Noel's Garden Blog: Self-seeding plants - joys and dangers Noel Kingsburyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09443137231998907024noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post-92107760878190617632016-01-03T16:14:28.093-08:002016-01-03T16:14:28.093-08:00I may have had too high of hopes for this book. Wh...I may have had too high of hopes for this book. While it had a copious amount of beautiful photographs, it was pretty lean with regards to management of these plantings. There wasn't much beyond the suggestion that gardeners should go out everyday and take a walk in the garden that ends with the compost bin. While that may work for a select group of dedicated hobbyists and monied estates, I have a feeling that will turn a lot of people off. There's no way I'm getting a client to weed a half acre meadow everyday. Where's the technical meat about mowing during different seasons, frequencies, or heights and how that will affect the mix of plants? It's a pretty coffeetable book.<br />skrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post-32555734863318775762015-11-30T02:53:49.968-08:002015-11-30T02:53:49.968-08:00I do love 'cultivating caos' and self seed...I do love 'cultivating caos' and self seeding plants, but as a gardener and plants-woman I'm interested in knowing and understandind the problems that we can cause in the ecological system when we introduce self seeders from other regions of the world. I'm not a nazi-vegetal and I'm sure that nature is based on mixing, but sometimes when we use new plants we don't also add the animals and insects that deal with them in their original place. So this can become a problem. Hope gardeners can work strictly close to scientists that study edaphic and fauna features to prevent damages but encourage self seeding plants gardens. Have a nice Holiday Time and please, Noel, come to Italy!<br />P.S.: SORRY FOR ANY MISTAKE!<br />Elisabetta Gardenstudio Bolognahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13491821989183211309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post-19460192101687974632015-11-30T02:52:59.862-08:002015-11-30T02:52:59.862-08:00I do love 'cultivating caos' and self seed...I do love 'cultivating caos' and self seeding plants, but as a gardener and plants-woman I'm interested in knowing and understandind the problems that we can cause in the ecological system when we introduce self seeders from other regions of the world. I'm not a nazi-vegetal and I'm sure that nature is based on mixing, but sometimes when we use new plants we don't also add the animals and insects that deal with them in their original place. So this can become a problem. Hope gardeners can work strictly close to scientists that study edaphic and fauna features to prevent damages but encourage self seeding plants gardens. Have a nice Holiday Time and please, Noel, come to Italy!<br />P.S.: SORRY FOR ANY MISTAKE!<br />Elisabetta Gardenstudio Bolognahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13491821989183211309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post-9404807986772720202015-11-09T19:35:25.686-08:002015-11-09T19:35:25.686-08:00'Self-seedling' always been most crucial ^...'Self-seedling' always been most crucial ^_^<br />I'm totally agree for these statement, you know .. i've many reading list related self-seedling, but still not learn so much from the book ...<br /><br />Anyway, thanks for this share ^_^gardeningspotlight.comhttp://gardeningspotlight.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post-60010453929510631162015-11-08T04:47:10.440-08:002015-11-08T04:47:10.440-08:00I have used self seeders for a very long time. In ...I have used self seeders for a very long time. In fact there are quite large sections of my borders that I never planted at all!<br />I find certain plants that set viable seed such as dodacatheon and a gentian that might be the one you picture that never self sow but that if I collect seed and sow it in a seed tray which stands outside my cold greenhouse most of the Winter before being brought in after germination that keep me well stocked with new plants. I find Fritillaria meleagris is prolific this way albeit that self sows too. <br />On the other hand Briza maxima comes up everywhere.<br />Anyone for Limnanthes and Nemophila 'Penny Black'?Roger Brook - No Dig Gardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16210160273591839142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223294603002782762.post-46236351539594684072015-11-07T11:33:40.225-08:002015-11-07T11:33:40.225-08:00When I saw this book available, I ordered it but h...When I saw this book available, I ordered it but haven't read it yet,so thanks for this preview. I find self-seeding varies so much from place to place, and from one geographic location to another, that plants that are horrific self seeders for others don't do it at all for me. I've also found that what I thought would be a horrendously prolific self-seeder, Inula racemosa 'Sonnerspeer', in fact quickly diminishes in vitality, and will depend on continuous self-seeding if it is to remain in the garden. Observing seeding behavior has become my latest passion in the garden.James Goldenhttp://federaltwist.comnoreply@blogger.com