How to Grow Ranunculus | Pre Sprout Ranunculus | Growing Ranunculus
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.พ. 2021
- Ranunculus are beautiful spring flowers. They look lovely in the garden and in pots. They are great cut flowers and the more you cut the more flowers will bloom over a 4-6 week period in April and May. In this video Catherine shows you how she grows ranunculus so you can get started growing your own at home.
Best video I’ve seen, showing all the stages in the one video.
Thanks so much Karen, I am so glad you enjoyed it and I hope it helps you grow some ranunculus too x
Glad I found your video. I am in zone 8b (Seattle, WA) & am going to try growing ranunculus again after a few failed attempts. The corms have been soaked and are currently being pre-sprouted (missed these steps on those failed attempts). I am glad you mentioned about planting them outside in the fall as they'll come out stronger & bloom longer than those planted in the spring. I do have to buy fleece cloth to protect them from frost. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge with us.
Thanks so much Cristine for watching and I hope it helps you with growing your ranunculus. I am just about to get some on for pre sprouting tomorrow. I am hoping it’s not too late in the year but the corms were much later coming through. I will grow some now and then some again late winter x
I can't wait to plant mine!! I have ordered some corms, and they will be arriving in mid April. I am in Zone 5, hopefully I can grow them successfully!!
Good luck growing your ranunculus! I think in zone 5 you have a very similar season to us with last frosts in May and first ones in October?
❤Thank you for this! I just pre sprouted the anemones and ranunculus and plan on succession planting once a week for a longer bloom period. I’m doing it indoors because our last frost date is April 15, near Washington, DC.
That sounds great. I hope you get lots of lovely flowers. I have just started off another batch too for flowers in June this year.
My ranunculus are now outside! Started them in late March hope it is not too late to enjoy the flowers!!
Fingers crossed! Ranunculus don’t like really intense heat so they should flower well if it doesn’t get too hot.
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm well then I guess it is lucky we are having a mild spring so far! Fingers crossed
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Thank you so much for watching!
Hi, I'm glad I have found your videos. Very helpful for first grower in Scotland ☺ I'm wondering if you can keep it inside the house during winter waiting for spring to come as we don't have green house?
Hello, thanks so much for watching. Ideally the plants need to be grown on over the winter unheated but frost free with good light so they don’t get too leggy and weak. If you don’t have a greenhouse/coldframe do you have a room in the house that gets good light but you don’t heat all the time, like an unheated conservatory? Hardy annuals can also survive planted directly into flower beds too, especially if the soil is well drained and we get a mild winter.
I’ve just found your channel and I’m so glad I did. Can you tell me if you protect your ranunculus or just plant them in the garden and pop fleece on as and when necessary. I’ve not got a poly tunnel and grew them last year in pots but I was very disappointed in them and it was hard work moving them all the time to protect them from the weather. Mine have all pre sprouted and in small plant pots but I’d really like them in the garden in one big patch. I live in Yorkshire so we don’t get too much extreme weather. Thanks Deb .
Hello Deb, thanks for watching 😊 This is something I am learning a lot about myself at the moment and have a bit about in tomorrows video. For the last few years I have started growing more ranunculus and anemones. Last year I got most through from being overwintered in the greenhouse in little pots and planted out in spring but I did lose a few to too much water. This year I watered far less and they looked brilliant all through the autumn. Unfortunately this December we had overnight temps down to minus 15 for a couple of weeks and unfortunately I lost 70% of the ranunculus in the greenhouse even though they were covered in fleece. But amazingly outside, not covered the ranunculus survived
and were insulated by the snow. From the last couple of years I think I have best results from pre sprouting early autumn, planting direct in the garden and if any very cold temps with no snow cover in horticulture fleece. I think in mild winters my ranunculus do fine in pots in the greenhouse kept on the drier side but the changeable weather we keep having means that it is a lot of work with a poorer chance of survival when we get extreme weather x
Good morning Catherine, I have watched this video several times….really love this one. My ranunculus and anemones have been growing away nicely in my unheated greenhouse since last autumn. They are well established. Can I plant these outside in the garden now without hardening off? 🙂
Hi Jane, that’s great you have got lots of ranunculus and anemones looking great. You will definitely need to harden them off before planting outside, just so they don’t get too much of a shock x
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Thank you for your advice, I shall start hardening them off along with my other hardy annuals in the next few days.🙂🌺
Thank you for sharing🎉 I'm in northern California 45 mins below Lake Tahoe zone 9b My great grandfather was from Scotland. He was a gold miner 1848 era Last name Borrowman means son of Borough hope to visit Scotland some day soon:) MacGregor clan
Beautiful Ranunculus you're growing 💗 much love Leopolda Borrowman 2880 Tunnel street apartment 114
Placerville, CA 95667 PS LET ME KNOW WHERE TO BUY GOOD RANUNCULUS QUARMS GOD LESS YOU!!:)
My mother is from Italy I'm a first generation American:)
I found out Ranunculus flowers originated in Italy:)
I'm going to learn how to grow Ranunculus to give some plants to my mum & also sell at market:)
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Thank you for watching 😊 you live in a beautiful part of the world. I hope you get to visit Scotland one day, there are so many beautiful places to see here too. Ranunuclus are fabulous flowers so I hope you enjoy giving them a go growing. I get mine from farmer gracey who I think ship to the USA too but you will easily be able to order corms closer to home
such as from USA flower farmers or places such as easy to grow bulbs, dutchgrown.com or Eden Brothers. Good luck with getting some beautiful flowers this year.
Hi Catherine, really interesting video. Where would you recommend buying the claws from ? 😊
I have tried claws from a few different places mainly Peter Nyssen and J Parker’s in the past. This year I am trying Farmer Gracey for the first time as they had a few different varieties I wanted to try but still waiting on them arriving.
Hello! For my zone, I planted my corms in the ground in the autumn. I covered the plants with a frost cloth, when the temperatures started to get low. It was terribly cold and icy, and the plants wilted and have the appearance that they are dying. A few "survived." I dug up a few of the dying plants and the roots appear "healthy." My question is, "Will the plant 'start over' for the season?" or should I dig up these plants and replace them with pre-sprouted plants?
Hello, thanks for watching. I think as you have dug a few up and the roots are looking good they may be ok. However they may be less productive, more susceptible to disease and stalled in their growth so if you are wanting a guaranteed good crop it may be worth replacing them. Last year when I grew mine to overwinter I did lose them in the extremely cold spell we had but when I had dug them up to check the roots had gone so I knew there was no come back from those corms. I started new corms this time last year and they flowered for me the end of May and into June. Ranunculus are amazing flowers but they do take a bit of work getting through the winter cold. Good luck 🤞
Hello - is it possible to keep them alive in the greenhouse through winter in pots? I went rogue and bought 60 and they just arrived, and I didn't realise I couldn't just plonk them outside without protection (total novice, spring 2022 will be my year 2 of gardening). Would be easiest to just leave them in the greenhouse. instant frost protection and all...
Or if you put them outside with the fleece, I take it you need one of those hoop frames that are pinned to the ground - can you just leave it on all the time or do you have to go and take it off in the day when it's not freezing? Leave a gap for air flow...? And then snow... not crazy likely but possible for a few days at least where I am....
Sorry so many questions but I'm a bit unsure how to avoid killing them and I can't find answers to all my dumber questions... Some advice would be extremely appreciated!
Hi Samantha, thanks for watching 🙂 You can keep ranunculus in the greenhouse in pots or crates over the winter. They will get some protection from frost there. If temperatures drop well below freezing you can add an extra fleece floating cover over them until the temperature comes up again. Outside ranunculus can over winter in well drained beds and with a floating row cover of fleece over. I keep mine in the greenhouse until March as it can be very wet and very cold here over the winter. Good luck with growing them x
Fantastic question. I was looking for this information myself. It's much like attempting to create your own climate for said flower. I'm on experiment myself to get my flowers going for mother's day.
@@justcallmeJ0 I hope yours work out! I had a big failure on this in all honesty, I did not avoid killing them in the end. Damping off got a bunch (oops), some rotted from overwatering I think (nothing came up and i never found anything in the pot), and then when I was down to 14 a teeny tiny slug ate all the leaves off 10 of them and they never recouped. Down to 4 now! fingers crossed they survive. I'm going to stick to spring from now on - if for no other reason then it's less months of trying to keep them alive and the sheer volume (amongst everything started from seed) means some are bound to survive!
Hello! Is it too late to start off ranunculus now in the UK? If it isn’t where do I start?! Thank you!
Hello, no it’s not too late. I put some ranunculus on to presprout again last week. Pre sprouting will help kick start them into growth and then you can either pot them on or even at this time of year plant them out when they have developed a root system and some leaves. The only problem with starting ranunculus now is they will flower later in June/July. This is not too much of a problem for me as it does not get too hot here in Scotland. Depending on where you live it might be too hot for them at that time of year. Ranunculus don’t flower well in the heat and tend to slow flower production then.
Hi I’ve sown ranunculus and anemone this autumn in my greenhouse the temp hasn’t really dropped below 4.1 at night here in south Berkshire, so both varieties above sown are really doing well and really green and about 2inch tall already, would you leave them all year in the greenhouse or would you plant and protect from frost outside know?
Would be grateful for your reply
Hello Susan, thanks for watching. Either will be fine. I think you are not as likely as I am to have frosts in October so if you planted them outside now and let them get established before it gets really cold that would be fine. You can cover them with some fleece if the temperatures did go below freezing. Alternatively you can overwinter them in the greenhouse and plant out in March which is what I will do but only because I know some of our winters can be very cold and I don’t want to risk losing them if it’s a winter of prolonged temperatures well below freezing.
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarmThank you for getting back in touch Caroline, I do love you channel of which I stumbled on late this year, I think I’ve watched nearly all of your videos, so always look forward to your updates 👩🌾👏👏
Thank you Susan, I am so glad you are enjoying them. It’s great to have you following along on my flower growing and gardening journey x