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What are your favorites?
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Posted by
msmashy NJ/6 (
My Page) on
Sat, Feb 4, 12 at 12:01
| Wondering what everyone's favorite winter-sown flowers are...
... For containers/planters?
... For the garden?
What's at the top of your WS list this year? |
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RE: What are your favorites?
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| Well, for containers, I will be planting Alyssum. I don't know if I will plant anything else for containers or not, I'll probably just buy a few things from my local greenhouse. For the garden, poppies are at the top of my list. I WS poppies last year but didn't get them planted soon enough and they didn't do very well, just a few small blooms. Verbena bonariensis (purple-top vervain) is also I must for me this year. I have always admired this plant, but have never grown it until last year. I had a mystery plat sprout in one of my containers. It was Verbena bonariesis...one seed must have slipped into a packet I got in a trade...they are very small. I collected seeds to plant again this year. Another repeat favorite from last year is Salvia 'Lady in Red'...I was very impressed with this one and saved lots of seeds for myself. Thanks to "adamark" for the seeds! Happy Sowing,
Matthew
Indiana,Matt |
RE: What are your favorites?
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- Posted by bakemom z6 Central Ohio (My Page) on
Sat, Feb 4, 12 at 16:23
| st. john's wort. lost my old one this winter for some reason...but managed to save seeds first. more dianthus and penstemon. |
RE: What are your favorites?
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| Bakemom, I have a 7-year old St. john's wort that is gorgeous. A few years ago after pruning it I stuck some cuttings in another spot in my garden and they rooted. Now both bloom every year. It's one of my favorites! |
Verbena
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| Matt, I WS'd verbena today. Can't wait to see how it does! |
RE: What are your favorites?
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| Penstemon Cambridge and verbascum milkshake , barberry orange rocket are my newest favorites. Who knows what this years sowing will bring. I'm in love with penstemons for sure. Have winter sown 5-6 new ones. |
RE: What are your favorites?
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| Don't you know you're not to play favorites with your children? |
RE: What are your favorites?
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Here's a container I did a few years ago. I haven't been able to match it since then. Click to enlarge.
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RE: What are your favorites?
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| I see some red salvia in duane456's photo. I might try planting some of my 'Lady in Red' Salvia in a container to see how it does. Matthew
Indiana.Matt |
RE: What are your favorites?
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| Matt; I planted Lady in Red in containers, they did well. Glad you like them. I just sowed mine today. All this fun from one plant I bought 2 yrs ago! |
RE: What are your favorites?
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| adamark, I was very impressed with Lady in Red! I lost most of my seedlings last year to a hard freeze after they had sprouted. I WS'ed all the seeds you sent to me in a milk jug and they filled the jug. I think they just about all sprouted. I planted one little plug in my garden and got the most wonderful looking clump, of dark green leaves and beautiful red blooms. We had such a dry and hot summer that I was surprised they made it. I only watered them when they started looking stressed, but once it cooled off in the fall, they snapped out of it...I dead headed them, and they came back strong, and bloomed until frost. Fantastic plant!
I highly recomend it. Matthew
Indiana.Matt |
RE: What are your favorites?
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| I'm with Bakemomon the dianthus, one of my other favs is Lychnis vesuvius, such a cheery orangy/red. I also love my purple stoksia that I got at a local plant swap. Duane, thanks for the pics. I enjoyed them while having my afternoon coffee (now I'm off to update my wants list)! Lisa |
RE: What are your favorites?
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- Posted by edie_h 5 NY Finger Lakes (My Page) on
Sun, Feb 12, 12 at 14:52
| I may need to try the red salvia in containers too, after that pic. Beautiful! I have seeds from "Lady in Red" plants from two years ago, too. I think technically they're no longer LIR but they came up red last year. Now that I've got hummingbirds they are on my "must plant" list. I've heard they love this salvia. I've also WS'd two kinds of milkweed for the butterflies, and will sow the lovely tall verbena bonariensis. I helped plant a traffic island downtown with a bunch of stuff including that verbena and wow it was gorgeous. Got caught snitching seeds - oops! (And then was told to snitch all I wanted.) Edie |
RE: What are your favorites?
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The red salvia in that pic is called "furman's red". It comes true to seed for me so far.
Duane |
RE: What are your favorites?
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| My favorites tend to change from minute to minute - I am in the process of landscaping a new-to-me yard I acquired in May 2010. My best plants in 2011, from that year's wintersowing, were gaura, gaillardia, echinacea Kim's Knee Hi, and columbines for perennials. For annuals, cetratherum (I was hoping this might winter over, but it didn't), batface cuphea, portulaca, hibiscus sabdariffa, and calendula (which isn't dead yet). Herbs: spearmint, santolina, lamb's ear, sage, horehound, basil (which does fabulously here) and tansy. I'm hoping for a lot more this year. |
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