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A golden leaved form of the red campion from Ray Brown at Plant World Seeds. Very bright, very lovely, very easy from seed. The Plant World Seeds description says: "Bright pink flowers open over a very long period, on contrasting dark stems, above compact clumps of shining, bright, lemon-gold foliage. After years of trying we have succeeded in breeding this absolutely new and stunning, easy-to-grow dianthus relative that comes almost completely true from seed. This lovely variant on a British native flower is dioicus, meaning both male and female plants will occur, the male plants flowering for a very long time all summer long. So male plants just make pollen and do not set seeds, whereas the female plants produce inflated seed pods full of seeds, so allow them to naturalise, especially into gravel, for a stunning display. A tiny percentage of the subsequent seedlings may be green too, so simply remove them whilst they are small." Plant Delights Nursery say: "Silene dioica 'Ray's Golden' is a Ray Brown selection of a common European meadow perennial that is usually found in damp alkaline soils, which is why we expected it to die quickly in our southern garden. Well...surprise, surprise, surprise...to quote one of our famed southern philosophers. Our plants of Silene 'Ray's Golden' have done amazingly well, producing 2' wide clumps of nice thumb-sized golden foliage topped, starting in April and continuing through June (NC), with 2' tall x 3' wide sprays of small pink flowers. When flowering ends, I'd recommend cutting the plants to the ground so the foliage will regrow. The golden foliage is so nice I could even do without the flowers on this easy-to-grow dianthus relative. |
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| 7th May 2016 | ||
