Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Spring 2015 Plant Swap Discussions - PART TWO, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Jill-
Rose Campion is a biennial. Here--they drop seeds around August.
That is when I collect the seeds before they spill all over who knows where.
Since you WS yours, (did they germinate?) you should have some growing
and blooming this year. You will then have enough seeds to collect from them.

Direct sowing NOW would serve no purpose. They would get lost in all
the other plants growing. Even if they do come up--you may never find them.

I suggest you follow Mother Nature's schedule and scatter the seeds in August.
They should come up and survive the winter as seedlings and continue growing
the next spring--and then bloom.

Since the Red Rose Campion seems to be different from ours--I don't know how
the red one would behave here.
However--I will include a small packet of them for you so you can seed them in the fall.

G.