Moving aqueligia (granny's bonnets)

[TinkerPony]

Wish to move some of them to another place to grow next year and hopefully if suitable pot some into large pots in a patio area.
Is this possible and tips how to dig them up for removal and planting in their new home.
Thanks in advance.

Yes, totally indestructible. I’ve moved house with some. Dig deep, the roots go right down,but don’t worry if they snap. They need a deep pot

Yes I vouch for their indestructibility, I have moved my mum's (on a semi shady balcony) around, using bits of last years' flowering root and they ALWAYS come back happily in the early summer.

Mine in France are in a clump which is getting larger , sadly for some reason they don't self seed here! I LOVE them!

Forgot to mention Mum's are always in pots, mine are in the ground in sandyish soil.

Yup, indestructible and also self seed themselves happily wherever and whenever.

But try to grow a specific variety from a packet of expensive seed using proper compost and temperature control - that's a different story.

I've just had some pop up from across the roads garden, so glad to hear they are bomb proof

Brilliant delighted.
Originally it was a lone flower hidden under very overgrown bushes and branches that hidden it until we got the lot removed as it was blocking sunlight into the house. Last year I was rewarded with a row of them along the edge of the driveway.
Unfortunately when the petals died my neighbour thinking there were weeds cut them down with trimmer gutted but to my surprise this they had returned with vengeance double in size and spread out so yep true about they are indestructible.
Great to share with my mother for her home.
Other neighbours thought I was deliberately growing a wildflower garden 'patch' but no it was there before me.
I freed them from darkness.
So pretty.
Plenty pinks, few whites and one lone purple/blue flower hopefully more of them next year.

Lucky you Tinker They're gorgeous!

That's brill to hear OP. I discovered just four poor looking specimens. Nd cleated around them to let the sun in (overgrown front)

I’ve tried for YEARS to grow them. From seed, from plants I’ve bought, from my Mums garden. Nothing. Nada. This year I’ve spotted two plants in a border which must have self seeded from a neighbour. I’m hoping they’ll flower this year.
I’ve never understood why when they flower in the lanes round here like mad.

Best It's weird, some plants like SOME gardens , hollyhocks are like that with me. (they grow unplanted ,of course, on the verges outside our house beautifully but refuse to grow in the garden). There is much more sun on those verges though!

Oh and don't get me started on Evening Primroses!!!

My favourite flower, a beautiful reminder of my grandmother's garden.
Here are some of mine.

I dig them up too and also divide them and collect the seeds but they seem to enjoy sneaking into the most awkward corners.
What a lovely glimpse of colour they provide 💕

Ive heard Evening primrose can be a bugger to grow. We had some come up in a seed box, didnt know what they were at first. I leave them to seed in the hope we get some plant., Ive had a few this year, managed to move aa couple before OH did some work and trampled the rest.

Ive also got some in the front garden which I think seeded over the fence in the back then got transplanted when next door tipped their topsoil in my front garden

Thank you for all your replies and pretty flowers pic great to see them in different colours unusual the almost black deep purly colourIamEarthymama

How do I collect the seeds which part do I snip the yellow part?
Tips welcome.

Just today spotted a lone granny bonnet had escape across the road and thrive on basically a thin layer of mud amazing I must get pic tomorrow

Forgot to say thank you to Oldraver for your pics too.

IamEarthy WOW those blue ones are really beautiful! I love blue flowers. Yes I planted some cornflower seeds a couple of years and forgot about them, they're growing nicely now and a lovely blue too. BUT they're growing where I thought I'd planted Ev. Primroses!

I get the feeling that like hollyhocks they are really weeds and don't want a lot of care; like a clean seedbed and careful watering etc.. Valerian is the same in my garden.

Tinker I'd just leave them or wait till they've gone over and shake the seeds heads into a paper bag or just shake them over the place you want them to grow.

Oldraver At least yours grew!! dh is terror in the garden he actually mowed the grass " for exercise" I should 've watched him because he's mowed over some of my beautiful peony poppies!! Luckily for him they're coming up again!!!

I'm a poppy fiend as they're easy to grow. I assume peonies poppies are double ones ? I've had a few wild ones like that and they are amazing

Growing wild in the lane. Not growing in my garden.

Oldraver No they're literally multi petalled like peonies and shaggy leaved. I've only seen them here MW Fr. they just arrived in our garden!

So pretty Best Like a ballerina's skirt. I've never seen them before.

I have more pictures!

Iam Ooooo!!!!! I want them.... I'm never usually acquisitive but, including Best's, they are all so lovely....... I bet the bees love them too!!