The Flower Seed Sowing Thread 2015 - 2018

[Small pumpkin]

Yesterday's flower sowing.

Sweet pea spencer mix
Cosmos sensation mix
Lavender munstead
Nicotiana sensation mix
Sweet William
Cornflower mix
Corn cockle
Larkspur imperial mix
Night scented stocks
Nigella mix
Calendar fiesta gitana

Will be back later with today's flower sowing.

[Martin H]

Yesterday I started off a few more flowers:

Gazania (saved seed)
Nicotiana (saved seed)
Cosmos (saved seed)
Gaillardia "Arizona Red Shades"

[johnjohn]

Not seeds but bulbs-I mentioned in Chatback that on Saturday I found a box of spring bulbs in the garage that I had completely forgotten about so a little belatedly (both from a posting and planting point of view ) I got these into the ground:

75 Daffs- Actaea,Obvillaris, St Patricks day,Prof Einstein and Red Devon.
125 Crocus- Ruby Giant, Fuscotinctus, Cream Beauty, Ard Schenk, Sieberi Firefly.
75 Snowdrops- singles

Still to put in are 50 iris reticulata and 25 chrysanthus Prince Clause but I'm thinking they will go into pots this year.

Not expecting much but they stand more chance outside than in a box in the garage...

[Small pumpkin]

Lupin 4 varieties
Sunflowers 7 varieties
Livingstone daisy
Pansy 2 varieties
Viola 2 varieties
Aster 3 varieties
Zinnia 4 varieties
Marigolds 2 varieties
Dahlia
Dianthus
Nasturtiums
Cornflower
Emilia
Godetia
Rudbeckia
Poppy 2 varieties
Butterfly mix
That's it flowers are all sown.

[mothhawk]

Sowed anise hyssop and nepeta (catmint) yesterday, dettihc sweet peas all potted up and outside.

????? did you see that? I typed "chitted" the right way round, but it's come up back to front

Spooky or what?

[johnjohn]

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[veggiechicken]

^^^ rettun

[johnjohn]

Got a few flowers sown done today, mostly into propagators.

For the plot:
Dahlia starlight mixed
Marigold French dwarf double

Sown to supplement the allotment flower meadow, all into outdoor blowaway:
Wild Poppy
Cornflower tall mixed

Sown for home:
Lobelia Crystal Palace
Zinnia Sombrero
Tagetes starfire mixed
Chilean Glory Vine mixed

[burnie]

Sowed my first flower seeds for this year, just some Calendulas

[Guest]

Verbena Bon. (again)
Sea Holly (again)
Globe Thistle (again)
Cirsium (again)
Statice (again)
Astrantia (again)
Alchemilla Mollusc (again) (I have no idea why I always feel the need to call it that )
Bells of Ireland (again)
Pentstemon (again)
Larkspur (again)
Phlox (again)
Bupleurum Longifolium (again)
Cleome (again)
Pink Pampas (again)

If anyone has germination tips for any of the above they would be greatly appreciated although some I know is just old seed.

Dalia mignon (red, white, purple)
Sea Lavender
Celosia
3 types of milkweed

[Chris11]

A few years ago I bought a tray of mixed Petunias and put them in a hanging basket.

Since then I've been saving the seeds and resowing them in the basket, clearing away dead plants and weeding/top dressing. The hanging basket is now pretty old, but has had a new lining made with the plastic from an old compost bag with some drainage holes added.

It's interesting each year to see what coloured flowers I will get, as the original mix will have cross pollinated and some of them might have been F1s.

I also added a Black Mamba variety to the basket a couple of years of ago, and although I didn't get any flowers of the same colour last year, I did get some that were lovely shades of purple

It's fantastic going out at dusk or dark and shining a torch on purple flowers like this at it reveals colours close to the Ultraviolet spectrum that you cant see during normal light. A small window in to the world of what insects see that we can't.

[Guest]

Scarlet Milkweed
Clematis Integrefolia
Canary Creeper
Mina Lobata
Anthirrinum Night and Day
Nicotiana Lime Green

[Chris11]

Sowing the first sunflowers of the season today.
Some old self saved seeds from previous year's giants.

[Bren In Pots]

My sunflowers from saved seed have germinated all 6 of them, no sign of the nasturtiums yet though.

[johnjohn]

This is turning into the sunflower thread

Kong
Sunburst mixed
Little Dorrit
Titan