Hi All - I'm new on here - general question

Hi,
I haev just received some snow in summer and Lychnis Viscaria Splendens from a mail order firm. They have come in green plastic containers without pots - is it safe to plant these out now, or shouls I grow them on for a few weeks inside?

Thanks

 

Hi Andrew, Welcome to GC. Both Lychnis and Cerastium are fully hardy in the UK. You should be OK planting out straight away.

 

I love Cerastium! Nothing seems to kill ours off. It just spreads everywhere

 

Andrew welcome to the forum.

As the others have said snow-in-summer is a hardy little plant and once it's happy in your garden it grows wonderfully well, it also makes an ideal place for cats to curl up on..... well my mum-in-law's cat loved doing that! :D Hel.xxx.

 

Hi and welcome. Personally I would not plant Cerastium anywhere in the garden, except perhaps in a container. It really is the most awful thug!

 

Welcome Andrew. As you can see on this forum, it's very rarely everybody agrees with each other but if everybody agreed, there would'nt be much point to the forum. Put your plants in a small raised bed then you've got the best of both worlds.

 

It will fill up a space till you need more room for other more prectious things then you gon just pull it out

 

Joyce, you mean dig it out. If you just pull it out, as Pal says, it is a thug and like The Terminator it will be back.