Biennial - Two Season Plant Height: 2 to 3 feet
Usually grown for its translucent 'silver dollar' like seed pods as a dried flower. It blooms with lightly scented purple or white flowers which slowly transform into money plant. It is also known as "Honesty", Satin Flower and Moon Wort.
Special Directions for Short Season Climates
SOWING: Sow seeds in place, in permanent location, covering seed with 1/4 inch fine soil. Plants may bloom and form pods if started in early spring. Can also be started in mid to late summer for blooms the following year.
THINNING AND SPACING: When seedlings are about 3 inches tall, thin to about a foot apart.
GERMINATION: About 2 weeks. Keep soil moderately moist during germination.
Ed's Special Advice
Plant in a mostly sunny or partly shady location. Plants thrive with neglect in average garden soil. Cut stems of plants as soon as seed pods start to turn brown. Strip leaves from plants and hang small bunches of plants upside down in a dry, shady spot. You may also need to carefully rub off outside of pod to reveal the silvery center.
2006-09-29 02:09:03
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answered by im4friend 2
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Why not decide for some thing seasonal to circulate in - the fuchsias and geraniums will end flowering in the process the wintry climate so placed some thing in that provide you with a show then - colchicum and/or autumn flowering crocus working example. you are able to circulate away them in and that they're going to come again next year. Snowdrops for January, and a few daff's or narcissus (reminiscent of daff's yet smaller) for March. And to plug those gaps interior the summertime you have gotten some lilies. a number of those bulbs could be put in now and in case you arranged them in drifts you will have seasonal reflects all year around, the only element you will desire to do with all of them is decrease the flower heads whilst they die and wait some weeks earlier reducing the leaves (you wait to enable the goodness circulate back into the bulb for them to return back here year). extra: I in simple terms examine somebody else reported dahlias. in case you reside interior the united kingdom they only commence flowering fairly previous due - you get wonderful reflects for a month or 2 and then will desire to advance the tubers and keep them heavily, planting them back out in would. They thrive in finished sunlight and prefer a great style of watering interior the united kingdom, you will desire to stake them and beware for earwigs which eat them. - it rather is the united kingdom adventure besides so in case you prefer low maintenance, collectively as they are wonderful flowers, according to probability superb to handbook sparkling.
2016-10-15 08:16:23
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answered by ? 4
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Money is neither a flowering plant nor non flowering plant.
2006-09-28 23:14:40
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answered by Anonymous
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They are also known as Silver Dollar Plant, because biennially they produce seed pods that look like silvery discs. Then, on opposite years, they bloom with purple flowers.See attached article
2006-09-28 22:50:06
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answered by Clarkie 6
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Flowering Money Plant
2017-02-23 07:33:35
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answered by ? 3
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Well, it can be both. If you are gaining money on and on, it is certainly flowering! But if ever you are having just a still amount of money, it is non-flowering!!
2006-09-29 01:35:58
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answered by Anonymous
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I have one, they look like silver dollars. very nice plant :):):)
2006-09-28 22:48:14
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answered by Spongebob 4
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