Yep, they are,
but have no fear.... You will turn your 3 into 300 (or so) in no time at all!!
When they are done flowering, watch the
seed pods, all up and down the stem...They'll all dry out and some may even open up a bit...
Take those and do several things with them.....
What will happen is... when the
seed touches soil and sprouts... you will have leaves and that will only stay leaves all through the winter and then come the following season, it'll
flower for you...
The ones' the come to get planted early may
flower for you the next year, but you will start to get some every year, as the one's that start early leaf out early and the one's that put on the ground late, will then leaf out the following year and you'll have the
flowers the next year for that one
plant.
I started out with only a couple
plants and have quite the number of them now....
You can take the
seed and sprinkle them on the ground in a new part of your garden and thin out accordingly... after that..... you can save some and sprinkle in the fall...
or even the
spring... *I am not sure if they need some kind of cold temps to be viable... a
seed person can help you with that. I just let mother nature do her work here.. and they fall on the ground when they are dry or I take them where I've started a new area, or I find them in all sorts of places as mother nature likes to work wonders as to where she
plants them....
Just remember NOT PULL THEM THINKING THEY ARE A
weed COME
spring TIME!!!
And what colors did you get???
I had originally got a mixed 6pk and they all turned out to be a pale yellow, I was hoping for
the dark pink because my Granny always had the dark ones, well, after a few years, strangely enough, I have several different colors of them now, the dark ones, a pale yellow and maybe one close to a white. They seem to cross pollenate or something...
They are a pretty prolific reseeder after awhile!!
Good luck and please keep us posted on how you make out with new ones!!
Weezie