Good plant #38 - Pulsatilla Vulgaris

This perennial plant's flowers are very seductive.  However I think this is a bit of an expert's plant. It requires exactly the right conditions and even when it's got them, it takes ages to settle in and eventually flower.

The key to success it treating them carefully. They do not like being repotted or replanted because they hate their roots being disturbed. I recommend very carefully planting a young plant in a 12 inch diameter pot in a soil based compost with extra horticultural sand (80:20) with a layer of grit at the bottom and mulch of grit on the surface of the soil.

Root cuttings can be taken in winter from mature plants and its seeds can be planted from April onwards.  My advice is to propagate from fresh seeds in a pot from April onwards as described above.

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