On 12 Nov 2014, at 16:07, Leo Martin wrote: > Nor have I been able to sprout seed. Judith McLaughlin, the former propagator at Brentwood Bay Nursery near Victoria, successfully grew many pots of romney from seed. She would sow the seed in her normal perlite-rich mix (or maybe that was just a top dressing?), scatter torn up fragments of paper over the flat, and set it alight. This was all done in a big nursery greenhouse. I gather that germination was still somewhat erratic and she would get several waves of germination from each flat. Romneya grows very well in the Victoria area. You sometimes see huge stands of it that have clearly been in place for many decades. Some of these even set viable seed, but not all: are you sure you had viable seed? -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Z. 7-8, cool Mediterranean climate