In amateur perennial cultivation, we usually propagate by dividing plants or by means of shoot cuttings.However, if we do not have mother plants or want to obtain a large number of plants, we must use seed sowing.
Most garden varieties do not pass all their features to their offspring obtained from seeds.Therefore, we propagate from seeds only those species and varieties that completely repeat the features of the mother plants.
The condition for the success of this method is sowing fully mature seeds, capable of germinating in a timely manner. And so at the end of October, in November or December, we sow the seeds of these species that require low temperature, or even freezing, to germinate.
Perennials such as hellebore, bellflower, geese, gentian, cinquefoil, primrose, aconite need a long period of coolness to germinate. Their seeds are sown in pots or boxes filled with peat substrate or other seeding substrate and covered with a thin layer of sand.
Then place the containers with seeds in the garden in a shaded place, and after the onset of frost, cover them with coniferous twigs.Take off the cover in spring and make sure that the substrate is moist.Then we dive the plants and plant them in their target place.
