jungle from seed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mullein3]

i have found that article where someone grew a jungle from seed..and some of it reached over 6 foot in one season..it was in gardening which magazine..they were all started off in february in the house..the jungle comprised of sunflowers nicotiana..zinnias..bananas..cannas..dahlias..melianthus..a foxglove tree..castor oil plant and many more..if i raise the pots up at least a foot they will hide..peeping tom next door..i also have some mullein and globe artichokes that grow tall so with a bit of luck i will succeed..and runner beans provide a good screen also...shall have to start reading my seed catalogues now..

[andyjevs]

can't remember if i gave you the link before but i find www.chilternseeds.co.uk to be very good. Out of the plants mentioned, sunflowers and castor oil plant will get big quickly, bananas, dahlias, cannas and foxglove tree (paulonia) may take a bit longer and melianthus, nicotiana and zinnia are quite small. As you say, if you raise the pots up, you'll get a better effect Don't forget some of the taller, spreadin bamboo either which is often used as hedging and screening. One last thing, if the caster oil plant is the annual ricinus, the seeds are deadly poisonous...they are used to make ricin poison. If it's the fatsia that you mean...no probs...lovely plant Andy

[mullein3]

thanks andy..i may buy the castor oil plant as i know somewhere that you can get cheap plants from..