Growing part 2 - pricking out your seeds
with WILLOW CROSSLEY
Lesson 9 of 43
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Willow talks you through how to prick out your seeds.
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Pricking Out Your Seeds
Pricking out the seed is simply transplanting it into a bigger pot. When transplanting, hold it by the top of the seeds. It is really key to label your various seeds.
Seedlings and seeds serve as great presents. Harvest seeds from flowers you've grown previously: it's very satisfying when in your second year you're growing from your own seed. I am crazy about Tellima Grandiflora.
Make a hole in the new pot and drop the seed all the way down so that the stem can be covered. You can make wigwam creations with canes, and sticks or buy them ready-made. You plant them, prop them in the soil in a round formation then spike them, joining them all with a piece of string. Here I use small terracotta pots.
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Willow Crossley
World-renowned florist, author and designer, known as the UK’s ‘Queen of Flowers’.
Willow Crossley is a professional floral stylist, creating wild and whimsical arrangements full of colour, pattern and movement for an array of top British brands (Jo Malone, OKA). She is the author of four books and is regularly featured in House & Garden and many other publications. Willow is passionate about the profound impact nature can have on how we feel, and has gained a substantial following for her down-to-earth and inclusive approach to floristry and gardening. Willow firmly advocates a sustainable approach to floristry, working with the seasons and sourcing locally grown stems wherever possible.
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