A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Plants and Flowers Forum Moss Rose and Cleome

Who is the Moss rose lady? :/ Was that Wheezy? Loz?

I'm planting seeds today (more!) and my 'book' says they should be chilled first. Do you bother doing this?

Cleome? Any special instructions? My book says to put in peat moss in a paper towel and put in fridge for 2 weeks.

Sometimes I follow this book, sometimes I don't.

i never chilled my cleomes,keep my seeds in the kitchen coubard ,i plant them in reg potting soil or right in the ground after frost, ive never done anything special and they always grew just fine. i love cleomes!!

I just stick then in potting soil in the pot they wii grow. Never had a problem.

I've grown cleome for the past 4 years and have never given them any special treatment. Sometimes I start them indoors, and others directly into the soil - either way works just fine here.

Thank you! I have a lot (A LOT) of seeds, some I bought, some were gifts (!), think I'll plant some indoors and sprinkle some along with them when I plant them this spring.

Moss roses will self seed if given half a chance. They are very simple. You can start them inside or direct sow either is fine.

The cleome don't really like being transplanted but they will recover. give them some room they do get big. And don't harvest the seed pods until they are brown or the seeds won't be viable.

Patty - cleome plants will get QUITE large - they can get over 5 feet tall, and a few feet wide if you let them, so don't crowd them when you sow the seeds! And... they will reseed from all the teensy seeds if you don't catch all the seed pods when they are ready. So, in this case, I would say "less is more"!

However... the baby plants are easily recognizable once you see what they look like,
so pulling out unwanted plants is easy.

Also... once the plant starts growing well, there will be numerous sharp PRICKERS along the stems - BE CAREFUL!
Another thing... some people say that the flowers give off an offensive smell - like skunks! I don't find the smell bothersome, but do like the fact that the deer around here do - it's one of the few plants I can grow without worrying about it getting eaten!

I've always found cleome do better direct sowed in spring.And I get screwed if sow to early.And I sowed ALOT of cleomes in a wild area I have got lots of cleome in spring& fall trades.

My neighbor grows a nice pot of moss rose.I believe hers reseeded this year too.she grows as ground cover on one the brugs I gave her.Shes got blooms already on her blue silk MG...growing up last years dead vines....lol