Grow 20 Different Flowers from seed in 2020

[veggiechicken]

Can you grow 20 types of flowers from seed this year?
Show us your list

20 different poppies counts as 1
20 different sweetpeas counts as 1

You get the idea

Maybe show us some photos of your flowers later in the year, just to prove that you've done it.

There's another thread on the Veg Board for 20 Vegetables from seed. https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...-a_100654.html

[Small pumpkin]

I�ll be failing miserably. Not growing any flowers from seed this year.
But I�ll still be collecting flower seeds for my new garden

[Bren In Pots]

I've failed I only sow 4 flowers the rest self seed or are perennial.

Nasturtiums
Sun flowers
Sweet peas
Marigolds

[Thelma Sanders]

I don't think I'll make 20...
1 basket Lobelia Cambridge blue
2 Rudbekia Cherry Brandy, sometimes it lives over winter in the greenhouse, but I always sow some more in case.
3 Pink Clarkia
4 Cleome mixed
4 Californian poppy deep pink
5 Cosmos Xanthos and rubinato
6 Ammi visnaga
7 Nicotiana alata grandiflora and a pink one (can't remember the name)
8 Sweet peas various
9 Tagetes naughty Marietta
10 Calendula
11 Red sunflowers
12 Borage
13 Morning glory heavenly blue
14 Erigeron karvinskianus
15 Gazania pink mix

Lots more in the box, but these are the ones I'm planning for this year

[Guest]

1.Scabious
2. Sweet pea
3. cornflower
4. poppy
5. nigella
6. lurkspur
7. calendula
8. statice
9. helichrysum
10. gomphena
11. shoo fly plant thing whose name I can't remember (edit: nicandra)
12. sunflower
13. lupin (annual)
14. rudbeckia
15. cosmos
16. nicotiana
17. phlox
18. snapdragons
19. tithonia
20. carnation

easy - now give me a real challenge (apart from I actually have to sow and grow)

[veggiechicken]

NG, the real challenge is that we need proof - like photos of each flower, so you'd better get sowing.

[toomanytommytoes]

Sown late last year and overwintering in the greenhouse:

Cornflower Black Ball
Foxglove Apricot
Creeping Thyme
Salvia nemorosa
Teucrium hircanicum
Rudbeckia fulgida
Nigella
Musk Mallow
Alyssum saxatilis
Echium Blue Bedder
Aubrieta Royal Mixed
Sea Thrift
Macedonian Scabious
Goldenrod Goldkind
Echinops Ritro

Sowing this year:

California Poppies
Sweet Peas
Dahlia Bishop's Children + Mignon
Anise Hyssop
Echinacea
Cosmos Bright Lights + Sensation
Gem Marigolds
Sunflowers
Borage
Phacelia
Nasturtiums
Morning Glory
Calendula

[Mitzi]

I've got a list of well over 20 that I'd like to sow this year but I probably won't manage more than a few of them.

1. Verbena bonariensis
2. Nigella papillosa
3. Evening primrose white / pink
4. Cosmos
5. Red Orache (atriplex hortensis rubra)
6. Opium poppy (white and/or Lauren's Grape)
7. Shirley poppy (white / pink)
8. Aquilegia Nora Barlow / black barlow
9. White honesty - actually I sowed this in autumn but it's not planted out yet
10. Cleome spinosa
11. Malva (e.g. zebrina)
12. Pink nasturtium
13. Meconopsis (blue ones)
14. Salvia horminum (clary but not the true one)
15. Rudbeckia
16. Californian poppies
17. Calendula
18. Tagetes
19. Gaillardia
20. Mina lobata
21. Canary creeper (tropaeolum) or black eyed susan (thunbergia)
22. Nasturtium (orange)
23. Some kind of red poppy? Maybe perennial (oriental.)
24. Lobelia tupa or other tall red lobelia
25. Amaranthus
26. Meconopsis cambrica (welsh poppies)
27. Sunflowers
28. Anything from the seed swap which takes my fancy!

Edit: Just seen the bit about 20 poppies counting as one. So I guess my list is somewhat shorter then. It's only a hypothetical list anyway so it doesn't really matter.

[Guest]

Okay if I can include biennials (I will do pics later in the year)

1. Foxglove (silver fox, alba, apricot, pams choice and mixed)
2. Teasel
3. Honesty
4. Sweet William (auricula eyed)

rest will follow when sown

[mothhawk]

Checking my seed list I have 32 different types of flower seed so if I can find the space I may achieve 20 sown. Some hardy annuals/biennials were sown in the back end - off the top of my head, myosotis, calendula, foxglove, geranium, flax, nigella, so only 12 more to go

[Mitzi]

Checking my seed list I have 32 different types of flower seed so if I can find the space I may achieve 20 sown. Some hardy annuals/biennials were sown in the back end - off the top of my head, myosotis, calendula, foxglove, geranium, flax, nigella, so only 12 more to go

Erm, last time I checked, 6 + 12 <> 20

[muckdiva]

I�d love to try, shall think about a list. Everything suddenly got very busy after Christmas and gardening plans have taken a back seat for a week or two x

[mothhawk]

Erm, last time I checked, 6 + 12 <> 20

Well spotted Mitzi, forgot catananche and honesty off the already sown list. Knew I'd sown 8, only listed 6. Oops

[farendwoman]

Definitely going to have a go with this!
The sort of challenge I will really enjoy.
Not sure what I�ll be growing yet though - but can�t wait to get started. Sweet peas already done )
Roll on Spring.

[Jolo]

Eupatorium cannabinum

I'm trying to introduce more native wild plants into my garden. I am going to give Agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum) a go along with Devil's-bit (Succisa pratensis). I think both are easy to grow and interesting so I will add them to some areas of my garden that are a bit bear.