Mid-Atlantic Gardening: How about some purples?, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Debbie,

What are the names of the 2 plants you are mentioning in plain English?

I do not know ANY plants by their Horticultural names, unless that is the only name they go by. Which one is the one in your picture?

Holly,

You should have small seed pods forming.
One thing that I learned NOT to do is pull off the spent flowers by hand. Let them totally wilt and fall off on their own. If you pull them off too early, you might be pulling off the forming, baby seed pod.

My pods are getting many and big. I have to put some pieces of nylons around them. They will not be ripe until October or such.

Gita

Heres a seed pod on the double purple from 2005. They are pretty big!