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Tue, Sep 28, 10 at 2:10
I know it's been ages since I've been on here but here are some of my second year blooms from my first winter sown perennials and misc. other wsown plants.
rudbeckia triloba 
annual balsam impatient 
first echinacea bloom. 
strawberries and cream nasturtium 
four o clocks 
heuchera 
helenium 
knautia 
dianthus lovelyness 
joe pye weed, it got seven foot tall this year. |
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| Very pretty. Love the fringe on the dianthus, may have to give them a try. Karen |
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| Wow, your heuchera looks wonderful, and I love the strawberries and cream nasturtium...so pretty! I like that fringed dianthus too. I WS'ed some heuchera last year, but seem to have lost them after planting them out...I'll try them again this year. Thank you for posting your lovely photos! |
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- Posted by tiffy_z5_6_can 5/6 (My Page) on Tue, Sep 28, 10 at 19:15
| I wsed some red heleniums a couple of years in a row but got yellow. Finally gave up and bought one. I hope the seeds it produced will give me results like yours!! Nice! :O) |
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| I had my helenium autumnale 'Red Shades' reseed on its own and the seedlings bloomed a bunch of different colors, a few yellow, a few solid reds, oranges and red, red and yellow, etc... Unfortunately, I had to cut them all back while in bloom to relocate them or else I would have saved seeds for trading this year. Maybe next year. Karen |
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- Posted by floodthelast 5 N. OH (My Page) on Wed, Sep 29, 10 at 12:01
| topie, I was really impressed with the size of the flowers on dianthus lovelyness too. They were three inches across. Tiffy, this is my first year with the helenium and I really like them. I got a mix of seeds and many colors, the one I showed is just my favorite one so far. Karen, sounds like you got a nice mix. I'm sure you will see them come back just as beautifully. I need to get up on my seed saving, there is just a lot more since I stared winter sowing. |
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- Posted by floodthelast 5 N. OH (My Page) on Thu, Sep 30, 10 at 1:02
Here are a few more from this year.     And the new bed I put in for all my winter sowing babies.  |
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| Very pretty. So nice to see nice fresh flowers. Everything here is fried. Karen |
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- Posted by floodthelast 5 N. OH (My Page) on Sun, Oct 3, 10 at 23:19
| I know what you mean Karen, most of my stuff is looking pretty ragged but the Cosmos are still going strong and several others. I really need to remember how much I love my winter sown annuals and how long they last every year. Also that even when I take forever getting stuff started that just means I will have color when all the other flowers have given up for the year. |
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- Posted by floodthelast 5 N. OH (My Page) on Thu, Oct 7, 10 at 0:48
candy cane zinnia was a favorite this year.  |
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| Ditto what Flood said about WS annuals. Most of my garden has gone dormant and I've cut back most of the perennials, but the cosmos just keeps getting better and better. I have cosmos plants that are just now starting to bloom and have 10-20 buds on each plant. It makes it hard to think about pumpkins and fall decorations! Martha |
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| I mean my stuff is literally fried. Hot, hot summer and no rain for months= fried. I can't even remember when we last had any rain, but my guess would be over 2 months. We are around 7.3" below normal rain. Severe drought. I gave up long ago. Karen |
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- Posted by floodthelast 5 N. OH (My Page) on Thu, Oct 14, 10 at 8:21
| We got the same heat but it sounds like a bit more rain than you kqcrna. Did you have to conserve water? It was a really hot summer this year. I had a hard time keeping up with my watering. I suppose I'm lucky I just have 1/4 an acre to cover and that including the house and driveway as well as garage. |
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- Posted by heathersgarden 6b/7a Mid TN (My Page) on Thu, Oct 14, 10 at 11:55
| Hi all! New to the winter sowing forum and super excited to try it this year. I first heard about it from a friend who goes to the Middle Tn Plant Swap; apparently it was a teaching topic last year! I'm hoping we go over it again this Sat when we meet again. Floodthelast - thank you for your all the great tutorials on winter sowing! In your second picture post, what are those flowers' names? One looks like a candy or blackberry lily? Omigosh I gotta start seed swapping too:D |
Here is a link that might be useful: MTPSwap
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- Posted by floodthelast 5 N. OH (My Page) on Thu, Oct 14, 10 at 12:16
| Yup heathersgarden, that is a blackberry lily. I loved it so much I both collected it from that flower and traded for more. I'm really pleased you liked the tutorial, I was hoping it would be helpful. Hmm in that post of pics the first one is an annual calendula, the second is blackberry lily, the third is gold goblin gaillarida a new personal favorite and the last one is an annual gaillardia called razzle dazzle. Do check out the seed trading forum. Everyone is very nice and I currently have a trades going on my calendula mix and gold goblin gaillardia as well as four o clocks. : ) |
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- Posted by floodthelast 5 N. OH (My Page) on Thu, Oct 14, 10 at 12:18
| I'd like to share with you all a link to my professional pics of my flowers and flowers of friends and places I've been. If it's a calendula it's mine though. These are the best of the best of my photos. http://www.agefotostock.com/age/ingles/isphga01.asp?actual=1&querystr= &id=40160205&vertf=0&ph=kristina+dewees&keyph= |
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- Posted by pam_chesbay VA 8a/7b (My Page) on Sun, Oct 17, 10 at 21:40
| Hey Flood - couldn't see the photos. Got this error message: Images found: 0 Search on: There are no images matching your criteria. It is possible that the keyword or combination of keywords you have used does not exist, or that the code(s) you have entered is(are) not correct ... |
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- Posted by floodthelast 5 N. OH (My Page) on Mon, Oct 18, 10 at 10:22
| That's strange. They are still showing up for me. Thanks for letting me know Pam. |
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