I wil NEVER grow Pinks again

[Garvey]

What are Pinks all about. They take ages to germinate. Are really fiddley to pot up. Go limp when the temprature goes above 20 degrees, take ages to flower and are nothing special!!!! Or am I just a rubbish gardener. Pansies ROCK!

[Two_Sheds]

Pinks do really well on East Anglian soil .. dry, sandy and alkaline

[Garvey]

I need to move out East with a tray of Pinks

[kentvegplot]

As Two Sheds said - they love alkaline conditions.....

[coreopsis]

I've never grown pinks from seeds but it's easy to propagate them from cuttings

[Snadger]

If they are like Canations you get a much better crop of flowers in the second year!

[Flummery]

I love them. I've got several plants around my front door and the scent is absolutely a knockout. I'm taking cuttings in the next few days so I'll have more. They are perennials so as Snadger says - they improve with keeping!

[rustylady]

What are Pinks all about. They take ages to germinate. Are really fiddley to pot up. Go limp when the temprature goes above 20 degrees, take ages to flower and are nothing special!!!! Or am I just a rubbish gardener. Pansies ROCK!

I love my pinks, especially the scented ones - my favourite is Gran's Favourite. Grown from cuttings and they never ever go limp on me. Are you growing yours outside?

[rana]

The effort invested up front is rewarded with three or four years of strong flowering and as Rustylady says a wonderful scent. Great for cut flowers either for the house or giving to friends. The one drawback is you can't eat them.

[Flummery]

The effort invested up front is rewarded with three or four years of strong flowering and as Rustylady says a wonderful scent. Great for cut flowers either for the house or giving to friends. The one drawback is you can't eat them.

You probably can!

[Garvey]

I am growing mine out in the garden in the flower beds. Do I need to lift and store them over the winter?

[Flummery]

No they are tough as old boots. You can get wild pinks in this country - although they are quite rare. I've seen Cheddar pinks - very excited I got too!

Don't forget to dead-head them regularly when they are in flower - they will go on for much longer.

[Florence Fennel]

I love my pinks, especially the scented ones - my favourite is Gran's Favourite. Grown from cuttings and they never ever go limp on me. Are you growing yours outside?

I've got Gran's Favourite and I love it, but it is looking decidedly straggly this year, should I chop it right back? I do keep propagating by pegging down the shoots. Any tips please?

[nick the grief]

The trouble is you don't know what the seed came off. If they were cra ... er I mean rubbish plants then the progeny won't be so good and the guys who breed them probably grow 100's of seedlings to get 1 or 2 good ones. I grow them here in the wilds of North Warwickshire( along with about 80 odd carnations) and they are fine. They do well in troughs as well.

I've got some in the bottom of the 3 tier planter that I rooted last winter and they are flowering now.

I'd get a few good plants from a good source and then you'll change your mind.