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Post by Ladygardener on Mar 25, 2014 6:57:53 GMT
My Morning Glory Grandpa Otis have germinated on the kitchen table, many thanks theinsidegardener for the seeds. Recent sowings include some Peas, more Sweetpea, Sunflowers and Marigolds. Jilly some of your Tithonia have germinated, thanks again for the seed.  |
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Post by Auricula on Mar 25, 2014 8:57:33 GMT
I'd like any spare bits please, if they're on offer  |
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Post by Tig on Mar 25, 2014 11:06:38 GMT
Spare bits of what Auricula? The orange alstro seedlings? |
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Post by Auricula on Mar 25, 2014 11:16:58 GMT
Yes please
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Post by Tig on Mar 26, 2014 0:44:17 GMT
Geez you are brave - they'll probably take over your garden in the warmer climate. I will pack their bags shortly and despatch them - don't blame me when they become triffids, you have been warned  At least they are only babies at the moment, look harmless enough  |
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Post by Auricula on Mar 26, 2014 8:59:25 GMT
Not much spreads here Tig, although they do quite like the damp  I've been looking for some which spread for ages so I'd be really grateful  thanks  |
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Post by pothead on Mar 27, 2014 14:17:10 GMT
Crikey pothead, you must have a vast greenhouse I have an 8X12 polycarbonate greenhouse auricula but i could do with one three times this size . Problems will arise at the next potting up stage, but I have a plan .  .......... more flower seeds sown today: ansonia scarlet bacopa busy lizzy didiscus ( more because I love them ) erodium heliotrope hollyhock hale liatris nemesia several nicotina several pyrethem pulsatilla phlox peppermint candy pansy joker petunias several salvias several schizanthus sweet sultan sedum statice tagets several tithonia talictrum AGAIN verbena compact veronica Also several cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes plus sage , fenugreek and strawberry temptation. no germination yet from gardenia, datura, talictrum, monarda or tirellia as expected  but I am surprised that nothing has sprouted from laurentia and nicotina avalon or nicotina sylvestris seeds |
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Post by Jasmine on Mar 28, 2014 13:21:06 GMT
This morning I sowed some free buddleia seeds that I got off AG , some zinnia seeds that I won in a GWD compy and lots and lots of cosmos! Oh, I planted some squash seeds too!
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Post by pothead on Mar 29, 2014 13:22:57 GMT
Right this is the absolute final spring sowing of my flower seeds I have way to many seedlings to cope with  aster agaratum anagalis black eyed susan cosmos loads coreopsis cineraria chrysanthemums calceralaria cleome geramium mophead gebera kelicrycin ( can`t spell that lol ) laurentia again lobelia cardinalis again mimulus several monarda again mesemberry apricot marigolds loads nemesia several night phlox osteospernmum several petunias several penstemons again red hot poker rudbeckia several stocks verbena apricot tu tu Also some spindle berry seeds a friend retrieved last autum |
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Post by Amber on Mar 30, 2014 15:44:52 GMT
I've been very circumspect (so far!).....I've sown veg seeds, but only one flower.....Ricinus seed collected from last year.....have sunflowers to sow...and some dahlia and cosmos seed.....not sure what else yet....but its a start |
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Post by Tig on Mar 31, 2014 13:49:58 GMT
Sown today Cosmos Psyche Foxglove Candy Mountain Golden Berry Pineapple (Cape Gooseberry) all courtesy of LG Chrysanthemum Polar Star Eschscholzsia Peach Sorbet Ratibida Red Midget & pinnata Codonopsis clematidea Sutherlandia Frutescens And I have soaking some saved ricinus seeds, and banana seeds Just a few more to sow and then I'm done with flowers .... and onto more veg. |
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Post by Tig on Mar 31, 2014 15:42:22 GMT
Sown in situ Calendula Fruit Twist (front borders) and Neon (back borders)
2 packets of azalea double mixed godetia
Think that's all the flower seeds I'm sowing - unless I find some I have forgotten about.
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Post by Tig on Apr 4, 2014 19:00:49 GMT
Ratibida Red Midget are up and looking good, brought pinnata in from WIG as it hasn't been warm enough for them to germinate in there.
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Post by Jasmine on Apr 5, 2014 9:05:36 GMT
I am having no luck with my rudbeckia prairie sun and cherry brandy and no luck with my althaea cannabina |
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Post by Jilly on Apr 5, 2014 10:33:07 GMT
I've lost count of the packets of Cherry Brandy I've sown over the years Jasmine, don't think I've ever had one germinate yet, in fact i'm a bit rubbish with Rudbeckias generally, you did well with the ones you shared with me last year though didn't you. I gave up this year & have got 20 plugs coming from Suttons (Cappuccino I think ). 20 will be far too many for me, I'm going to send a couple to Tig, did you want a couple too ? If you want a big display of them though I think I saw that they'd been reduced on the Suttons site the other week. The only things that I've got left to sow now are MGs, Shiva that I saved from Jasmine's seed from last year, an old pack of Heavenly Blue that I found & some Mina Lobata, I'll have to have a sort out first though as all the others are taking up quite a lot of space now they're pricked out & the Toms will have to be potted on soon. |
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Post by Tig on Apr 5, 2014 11:09:24 GMT
I have got Cherry Brandy to germinate OK at a fluctuating temperature 15-20c with a bag over the pot and plenty of light. I think rudbeckias may be one of those plants which grow better the fresher the seed, so perhaps you both got duff ones Last years plants have survived the winter and are sprouting well, I will try and save some fresh seed for you when they flower. |
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Post by Jasmine on Apr 5, 2014 11:50:48 GMT
I'd love a couple Jilly - wasn't it cappuccino that I grew last year? Thanks for the tips Tig. I did so well with the cappuccino seeds last year I wasn't expecting any trouble but I've got no cherry brandy germinated at all and 4 prairie sun came up but 2 have keeled over. I'd love fresh seed please! SR's is obviously duff!  |
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Post by Jilly on Apr 7, 2014 17:42:15 GMT
Had to have 2 goes with her Malope seed too Jasmine, I think you're right it was cappuccino that you grew last year, some sort of coffee anyway . I had a sort out of the growhouses & the spare room to free up some space, then went & spoiled it all but sowing the MGs & Mina Lobata & some Gaillardia that Ladygardener kindly sent me, so now I'm no further forward with freeing up space to pot the toms on, especially as the weather forecast is for colder nights so nothing else can really go out to the growhouse atm. I seem to have also forgotten that the arrival of the Rudbeckia is imminent too  |
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Post by Ladygardener on Apr 8, 2014 5:52:40 GMT
You made me laugh Jilly, you're doing just the same things as I am. I was playing musical chairs with pots yesterday as well but then potted on some seedlings into bigger pots and now I've no room for half of them.  Recent sowings include Mina Lobata given to me a while ago by either Dutchy or Rosefriend. I'd tried them before but had no luck so fingers crossed this time. I sowed Coreopsis Marti Gras and Cosmos Double Click and when I went to write it down in my book, I found that I'd sown the Marti Gras before I went to theinsidegardener so I might end up having 2 lots. Thankfully I only sowed a few each time. 
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Post by theinsidegardener on Apr 8, 2014 6:19:28 GMT
I sowed my indigo rose seeds yesterday, some lewisia cotyldon seeds, and some matucana sweet pea seeds (I know I'm late with them but thought I'd give them a go anyway), and scattered some zinnia faberge mix and gypsophlia convent garden. Have so many packets of seeds that I think I might just have to admit to myself I wont have room for everything this year!
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Post by Ladygardener on Apr 8, 2014 6:22:46 GMT
We've all been there theinsidegardener sometimes you just have to leave some for next time. Your Sweetpea will bloom later in the summer and most likely go on well into autumn so don't worry about sowing later. I sowed some a week or so ago for that very reason. |
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Post by Tig on Apr 8, 2014 18:52:32 GMT
After sowing the cosmos psyche I had to put them in the WIG due to space issues  Surprise, surprise they had all germinated today!! Also got a pot of the golden berry pineapple, three ratiba pinnata so far, 2 chrysanth Polar Star, signs of germination on the codonopsis, and four little seedlings of the thalictrum ichangense are up too  |
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Post by theinsidegardener on Apr 8, 2014 20:35:26 GMT
Well done Tig! I am going to sow more cosmos tomorrow, can never have enough. I am talking to different people every day and thinking they would just love a gift of a cosmos - I gave some to a friend last year and now she's converted to sowing her own this year. I feel it's my mission to have the world growing cosmos lol.
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Post by Ladygardener on Apr 9, 2014 7:14:03 GMT
Well done Tig! I am going to sow more cosmos tomorrow, can never have enough. I am talking to different people every day and thinking they would just love a gift of a cosmos - I gave some to a friend last year and now she's converted to sowing her own this year. I feel it's my mission to have the world growing cosmos lol.  I'm really delighted that my 2nd sowing of Scabiosa Atropurea Burgundy Beau are up. Nothing happened with the 1st sowing and I have tried several times to grow Scabiosa with no luck. This time, I just covered the seed with perlite, put them into a plastic bag and set them behind the TV near the window. It was the only place left to put them as everywhere else was ful. |
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Post by Ladygardener on Apr 11, 2014 5:34:14 GMT
My Cosmos Double Click were up yesterday when I took a look. Coreopsis are up as well. |
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Post by Ladygardener on May 5, 2014 11:11:56 GMT
Most of my seedlings are doing well, the bummers this year have been the Sunflowers of all things!!
Anyhow, almost at the end of what I'm sowing for this year. Today I sowed some yellow Courgette Soleil F1 and some Black Beauty Courgettes. Also sowed a couple of Pumpkin Mars F1 as well. Now that I'm moving things on and outside I have room to grow them. Oh and to keep the succession going I sowed a couple more pots of Hurst Greenshaft Peas. Fingers crossed.
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Post by wendya on May 13, 2014 10:57:22 GMT
I am not doing very well most of my seedlings are now dead sown too early probably, not one Toad flax survived but i have 3 cosmos that seem to be ok, I think i will be be sowing direct in future. But im an absolute beginner so i will learn hopefully |
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Post by Rosefriend on May 13, 2014 11:17:10 GMT
I am not doing very well most of my seedlings are now dead sown too early probably, not one Toad flax survived but i have 3 cosmos that seem to be ok, I think i will be be sowing direct in future. But im an absolute beginner so i will learn hopefully I lost a few myself this year as well - I got tempted too early and they either got leggy or got sulky and refused to grow!! I am going to sow my Poppies and Nigella etc directly this weekend.. RF |
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Post by Tig on May 13, 2014 18:51:45 GMT
It is so tempting to sow them early, and then they struggle. We have all done it Wendya |
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Post by wendya on May 14, 2014 10:06:39 GMT
I will attempt to sow direct this weekend, yes i will learn, at least my 3 cosmos are now outside getting used to weather, not many at all when i had about 12-15 at first Oh i must tell you in January (yes far too cold) i took off cuttings from pinks and put a plastic bag on them, they took by March, my first ever cutting is now in flower, little pinks coming out im a proud parent |
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At least they are only babies at the moment, look harmless enough 
I've been looking for some which spread for ages so I'd be really grateful 
but I am surprised that nothing has sprouted from laurentia and nicotina avalon or nicotina sylvestris seeds 
Recent sowings include Mina Lobata given to me a while ago by either 
Surprise, surprise they had all germinated today!!
