The flower seed sowing thread 2019

[farendwoman]

And cosmos???
OK in greenhouse once they’ve germinated do you think?

[farendwoman]

Sowed some own saved seed from last year. All from plants that did particularly well and that I have enough seed to have another go later on if it should go wrong!!
Nicandra (shoo fly plant), Snapdragons, orange Calendula.
Holding off to sow gomphrena strawberry fields because I havent got many of them to gamble with.

Update - the nicandra did very well - pricking out time methinks!!
Snaps and calendula not so vigorous, but they’ll get there I hope.

[toomanytommytoes]

Sea holly, verbena, garlic chives and Macedonian scabious in baggies in the fridge. Teasel, red deadnettle and viper's bugloss in pots and baggies at room temperature.

[farendwoman]

Lovely selection Tommytoes.
What are Macedonian scabious??

[toomanytommytoes]

Very similar to field scabious but with crimson flowers.

[farendwoman]

Very similar to field scabious but with crimson flowers.

Mmmm - nice!

[toomanytommytoes]

Sown some Anise Hyssop, Sweet Alyssum 'Carpet of Snow', Bronze Fennel, Echinacea, Lamb's Ears, Marigold 'Lemon Gem', Musk Mallow and Nasturtium 'Jewel of Africa'.

Resown some Helenium 'Rubinzwerg' (a hybrid, so no idea what colours they'll be, bought them because they're supposedly self-supporting) for the third and final time, this time in a baggie on moist tissue instead of direct into potting mix.

[farendwoman]

I like the sound of your Helenium Rubinzwerg.
And your post has reminded me to get on and sow some nasturtium - thank you!
Sowed some more sweet peas, blue statice, mixed statice, bracteantha, rudbeckia Chim Chiminee, African Marigold Kees Orange, Gomphrena Strawberry Fields and blue clary.
My earlier sowing of orange calendula failed miserably , so must sow more of those too.
Going to be busy pricking out soon, I hope!

[toomanytommytoes]

Hopefully these Rubinzwerg germinate otherwise I'll end up buying plants instead. Have found heleniums quite tricky to get going and the seedlings stay tiny for ages so you have to coddle them a bit.

[mcdood]

Sowed Tithonia goldfinger for the cutting bed and dotted in border
Salvia Blaze of fire for some bedding
Coreopsis - maybe dotted about the allotment or bedding - not grown them before
Chilean glory vine - hopefully to climb over shed.

[mothhawk]

The agastache (Apache Sunset) and verbena I sowed a couple of weeks ago are up.

I put some heliotrope seeds, tiny as they are, to chit as the seed is old (BBE 2014) a week ago, and some are sprouting, so carefully moved them to a pot. Nicotiana I did at the same time, equally as old, is showing no sign. May have to write them off and buy fresh seed

Potted up 3 lots of chitted sweet peas.

[farendwoman]

The agastache (Apache Sunset) and verbena I sowed a couple of weeks ago are up.

I put some heliotrope seeds, tiny as they are, to chit as the seed is old (BBE 2014) a week ago, and some are sprouting, so carefully moved them to a pot. Nicotiana I did at the same time, equally as old, is showing no sign. May have to write them off and buy fresh seed

Potted up 3 lots of chitted sweet peas.

Well I am even more optimistic than you, Mothawk.
Yesterday I sowed an old packet of Barnhaven Fireflies polyanthus. These were dated 1989!!!!!
I think I am clutching at straws here.

[Small pumpkin]

Sown
2 varieties of poppy
Aster carousel mix
Larkspur imperial mix
Petunia vein surfina
2 varieties of cosmos
3 varieties of antirrhinums
2 varieties of rudbeckia
Calendula daisy mix
2 varieties of marigold
Viola self saved mix
2 varieties of pansy
9 varieties of sunflower ( over 60 if they all germinate )

[toomanytommytoes]

Velvet Queen, Lemon Queen and 'unknown 2018' sunflowers, Pots of Gold marigolds, white and pink cosmos.

Also some phacelia and borage.

[Scarlet]

Balloon Vine - cardiospermum halicacabum
Purple bell vine ( maybe a bit late)
Ammi Visnaga
Cosmos - double click cranberries
Scabiou - snow maiden
All down today


Seeds sown and germinated - now in the GH
Pink cosmos
Annual lupin
Nicotiana
Bells of Ireland
Echinacea
Rudbeckia - goldsturn
Globe artichoke
NGs Clary
Calendula - NGs Snow something

Sadly my giant yellow scabious has been hit with frost.