Today I sowed:

Blanketflower
Yarrow
Foxglove
Pulsatilla, Red Cloak

Finally, my first yellow-orange flower in the garden! I wonder what would look nice with that?

On Jan 16:
Knautia  Knautia macedonica Melton Pastels
Candytuft  Giant hyacinth - Iberis
Agastache anisata (P)
Mimulus - Pastel Mixed
Black-Eyed Susan  Rudbeckia Double Gold
Scabiosa  cream
Armeria - Bees Mixed
Scabiosa stellata
Pansy, Loyal  Mixed
Carnation  Dianthus caryohyllus Giant Chabaud Mixed
Snapdragon Royal Bride - Antirhinum
Verbena  mix
Sweet Pea  Royal Mixed Colors
Nolana
Petunia, grandiflora  Hulahoop Mixed

Today:
Bachelor button  Florence pink
Bachelor button  Polka dot mix
Chives, Garlic
Phlox, Wild  (Dame's Rocket?)
Milkweed
Brussels Sprouts  Catskill
Echinacea - Tennessee Coneflower
Cauliflower
Chervil  Vertissimo
Cabbage - Savoy  Alexanders No. 1
Parsley, Leaf  Forest Green
Parsley  Italian plain leaf

Lynda

Lynda: What's the total count now in zone Lynda?

Karen

zamboni brocolli and 3 kinds of alliums, two ornamental and one to eat.

:)

Karen - it's 1460 container, 23,335 seeds so far.

Zone Lynda

Sheesh!

Karen

So far I have done:
Mixed Hellebores
Columbine, unknown type
Columbine, Black Barlow
Amsonia
Helenium, Red Shades
Thrift
Grapeleaf Anemone
Mixed Primula
Perennial Alysum
and one other thing I cannot recall right now

What fun!
Amy

Bonnie,
I noticed you sowed Cali poppies now. Have you done them this early before? Do they sprout well for you when you sow them this early?
I ask, because I usually wait until March or April, but I don't get very good germination numbers on them. I'm wondering if maybe I should be putting them out now too?

Linda

Linda, this is only my second year to try them. Last year, I waited until late March, but the germination was really low, and they croaked almost immediately when I planted them out. New strategy this year, sow them early, and plant them out while they are still tiny. I'll let you know how it works out!

Amy, where did you find the Helenium 'Red Shades'?

Bonnie

Thanks, Bonnie :-) Maybe I'll do half now and half later and see which does the best. I have enough seeds to try that.

Here's what I sowed today...forgot about my Gardens North order. It came yesterday.

Campanula rapunculus - Rampion
Platycodon grandiflorus - Balloon Flower
Achillea millefolium- Red Yarrow "Cerise Queen"
Artemesia stelleriana
Rhododendron groenlandicum
Ascelpias exaltata
Malus sargentii
Baptisia australis
Asclepias incarnata "Ice Ballet"
Asclepias speciosa

Linda

Today I sowed:

Dianthus 'Short Liz'
Juniper
Carolina Allspice
Mesclun Salad Mix
Coriander
Red Russian Kale

Ok, today I sowed:
Polemonium white(Jacob's ladder)
Alchemilla mollis(Lady's mantle)
Commelina(Day flower)
Agastache Apricot sprite

Pattie

my first year winter sowing--today:
primula veris
tina james primrose
kmotgg variegated
couple kinds of penstemon
dicentra scandens golden tears
3 different cleomes
verbena bonariensis
monkshood
inula
couple different ligularias
lady's mantle
iliamna
angelica gigas
couple dodecatheons
elderberry
hardy gladiolus seeds
prairie glow rudbeckia triloba
phystostegia
mentzelia decapitala
narrow leaf echinacea
Rhododendron prinophyllum
others--42 varieties in all. tons more to do!!

Was a really beautiful day here in the 70's. Wore shorts while WS. Battled large mosquitoes and managed to sow:

Dianthus (color unknown) (Beverlysc)
Columbine Granny's Bonnet (Chrizty)
Columbine McKana's Giant (Chrizty)
Columbine Mixed Colors (2 pots) (nan-6161)
Cleome "Cherry and Violet Queen Mix" (nan-6161)
Balloonflower (Chrizty)
Daylily Mix (3 pots) (Rosepedal)

Best to you and many blooms,
quiltingfox

Monday the 19th I sowed
1. Acer palmatum atropurpureum Japanese Maple 'Bloodgood'
2. Acer palmatum Japanese Maple 'Fireglow'
3. Agastache foeniculum 'Golden Jubilee'
4. Akebia quinata Chocolate Vine
5. Aquilegia/Columbine Winky color?
6. Aquilegia-Columbine 'Ruby Port'
7. Belamcanda chinensis Blackberry Lily
8. Buddleja davidii 'Black Knight'
9. Canna x generalis Orange

10. Canna x generalis Red
11. Dianthus 'Rainbow Loveliness'
12. Dicentra spectabilis 'Alba' White Bleeding Heart
13. Geranium 'Johnson's Blue'
14. Gladiolas bulbils mixed colors
15. Mixed Daylily colors
16. Monarda didyma Red Bee Balm
17. Pardancanda norrisii Candy Lily or Painted Lily
18. Polemonium caeruleum Jacob's Ladder
19. Prunella pogoda seeds
20. Ratibida columnifera Mexican Hat
21. Rudbeckia hirta 'Irish Eyes'
22. Rudbeckia hirta 'Rustic Colors'
23. Salvia pratensis Swan Lake
24. Tiarella- Foamflowers
25. Tricyrtis hirta
26. Tricyrtis hirta 'White Towers' Tricyritis

:) Fran

Today I sowed....

Blackberry lily
Discobelle Hibiscus Red
Malva Sylvestris Zebrina
Soapwort
McKanas giant Columbine

I hope this is 'the start' to my ws'ing this year, I have only been sowing sporadically, I have soo many more perennials to do, and of course, short on containers.

and... I'm getting an Aerogrow for my birthday! Wahoooo!!!
I cant take this plantless, greenless, growless winter any longer!!

I sowed:
1. Chinese Lantern
2. Rudbeckia  Chocolate Orange
3. Rudbeckia  Irish Eyes
4. Pyrethrum Daisy
5. Centaura  Blue Diadem
6. Gaillardia Mix  red/orange and yellow
7. Angels Blush  Rose Companion
8. Quince Shrub  Crimson and Gold
9. Aquilegia Canadensis

10. Rose of Sharon  Blue Satin
11. Blackberries
12. Candy Lily
13. Amsonia
14. Gazania
15. Butterfly Flower
16. Kiwi Vine
17. Lavender  Munstead
18. Lavender Lady
19. Rudbeckia  Green Wizard
    Happy Sowing Everyone! Nikki

Newbie here, last night I sowed:
1. Foxglove (regular digitalis and a dwarf hybrid that said blooms first-year)
2. Delphinium
3. Lupine
4. Echinacea
5. Oriental red poppy
6. Red hot poker

More to come!

Sheesh, you guys are exhausting me! A couple of days ago, I sowed:

1. Cleome
2. KMOTGG, variegated (trying for the umpteenth time)

Looks like I'm lagging a bit (lol!)

PV

Yesterday i sowed:
Variegated KMOTGG
Rudbeckia
Drumstick Verbena
Foxglove-pink
Gaillardia-'Goblin'
Nightblooming Jasmin
Formosa Lily
Fancy-Poppy-mix
Dantura'Lefleur Lilac'
Delphininu-Pacific
Columbine-Green Apple
E.snow-on-the-mountain
Digitalis Purpurea-Tall
Pulsatilla Vularis
Primula Candelabra Hy.
Asclepias Syrigca-pink milkweed
And one more,i forgot to lable-SURPRISE!!
It felt sooo good to be playing in the dirt,i will be doing more today.
Happy sowing every one.
Carol

I got a dozen containers of hollyhocks done!! That's a start.

Andrea

Bonnie,

Sorry I haven't been on this thread for the last few days. I got the Helenium Red Shades (and also yellow shades) from T's Flowers and Things. Almost all packages are a dollar. Not that many seeds, but enough to try for a buck.

Amy

Today I sowed:
Purple Coneflower
Nemesia 'Poetry Blue'
Tulipa Tarda Digitalis parviflora 'Milk Chocolate"

Nothing that I planted has sprouted yet - maybe soon!

iblack61,
You have sowed your tomato already?In a green house?,will they be ok this early?
I am in zone 5,Illinois.
I thought i needed to wait til May?
Carol

on the 15th of Jan I sowed:
snapdragons-black prince(thanks jaleeisa!)
stock-giant imperial mixed
monkshood-blue bishop
caryopteris-first choice
columbine-mixed kinds and colors
some weird thing I found growing in a field
stock-evening scented
viola-bowles black(thanks jaleeisa!)
viola-penny sunrise
sweet autumn clematis

on 24th Jan I sowed:
Lavenders-munstead dwf,hidcote dwf,english tall(vera),and lady

61 Jugs sown yesterday & today:
Gaillardia- Ariz Sun, Goblin, Fanfare, Burg, Regular, Razzamatazz, Oranges & Lemons, and Sundance Red
Ruds- Indian Summer, Sonara, Cherokee Sunset, Double Gold, Goldilocks
Centaurea- Persian Cornflower- Pink & Lavender
Salvia- Blue Bedder & Fariancea
Shasta- Snow Lady, Crazy Daisy, Silver Princess
Lupin- Blue Bonnet & Dwarf Pink Fairy
Dianthus- Alba, Canadensis, & Russian
Purple Liatris
Solidago Golden Baby
Snaps
Amaranthus Fat Spike
Foxglove- Candy Mountain
Butterfly Bush- Pink
Hibiscus- Lemon
Lunaria
Coreopsis Lanceolata
Rue
Catananche- Purple & White
Scabiosa Oxford Blue & House something-or-other Mix
Orlaya Grandiflora
HollyHocks- Majorette
Monarda- Dotted Mint
Columbine- Green Apples, Lemon Ice, Magpie, Dragonfly Hybrid Ppl & White & Red/Yellow
Campanula- Mixed

i sowed
petunia bedding mixed
rudbeckia irush spring
salvia blaze of fire
candytuft fairy mixed
californian poppy single mixed
gazania sunshine mixed

Today I sowed: Hollyhocks 'Creme de Cassisi' and White Penstemon. I also discovered my first sprouts - from 'Danish Flag' Poppy winter sowed on Jan. 8th. Hooray! I have been watching for something green. Hopefully another batch of seeds will sprout soon.

Four cabbbages, three to eat and one for the pretty.

Just1morehosta,
No need to wait until May on Tomatoes...I've learned that those babies are happy anytime. They don't sprout until it gets warm enough for them anyway. I just would have to watch them if we get a late freeze, but even then, they don't seem to care. I was even brave enough this year to only sow 2 to 3 seeds of each type. They are that reliable for WSing.
Basil? That can't go out until probably late April or May. Peppers? I do indoors. But Toms are hardy little buggers. They go out, out, out, and early as I can get them there! :-)

Linda

Yesterday I sowed:

Hollyhocks
Rudbeckia "Herbstone"
Soapwort
Blackberry Lily
Joe Pye Weed
Columbine "Leprechaun"
I am forgetting a few.

Amy

Got a few more done today:

Lettuce, Jericho
Lettuce, New Red Fire
Lettuce, Nevada
Lettuce, Simpson Elite
Lettuce, Sunset
Spinach, Tyee
Gaillardia, Tokajer
Poppy, Red annual 12" (rec'd in trade, thank you Stagerat)
Wallflower, English (also from Stagerat)
Wallflower, Siberian (also from Stagerat)

I'm just about done with my perennials now, so as soon as I get some more containers saved up, I'll start on the herbs.

Happy sowing!
Bonnie

Sunday i sowed:
Milk weed:2
Columbine:2
Gaillardia
Rudbeckia-B.E.S.
Double Hollyhocks:2
Peony Poppies:2
Carol

Today I sowed
Chabaud Carnation (1)
Dense Blazingstar (Liatris spicata) (1)
Hoary Vervain (Verbena stricta) (1)
Cardinal Flower (1)

. . . so it begins! :)

cheers,
Nora Belle

My poppies germinated today. Today I WS:
asclepias tuberosa orange butterfly weed (Chrizty)
cleome white with a touch of pink
dianthus
siberian iris
siberian japanese purple iris

Yesterday transplated red spider lilies and daffs.

Best to you,
quiltingfox

OK, Lets hope I didn't screw up these sowing too early. I'll keep an eye on them.
Today I sowed;
Candy Lily
Lettuce-Salad Bowl
Alaska green peas
Calabrese Broccoli
Homestead tomatoes
Better Boy tomatoes
Roma Tomatoes
Beefmaster Tomatoes
Rutgers Heirloom Tomatoes
California Bell Pepper
Garden Green Beans

Pattie

Meconopsis betonicifolia
Meconopsis cambrica "Frances Perry"
Meconopsis cabrica
Tanacetum balsamita
Primula denticulata, Ronsdorf Hybrids
Priumla florindae "Keilour" hybrids
Primula denticulata, Ronsdorf Hybrids
Primula candelabra-flowered mixed species
Arisaema triphyllum "Jack in the pulpit"

That pretty much concludes my perennials. I too get to take a break and collect some more containers before I get into the annuals.

Linda

Ohhhhh,i love Priumla-all of them.
Carol

Well I have finally began winter sowing, yay!!!!!
I sowed
poppies peony red, pink, purple and black, flemish antique, drama queen,lauren's grape, white cloud, thai silk rose bush, jelly beans and fluffy ruffles
butterfly weed ice ballet, gay butterflies, yellow, cinderella, yellow and red bicolor
agastache heather queen, apache sunset, tutti fruitti, apricot sprite, anisaia and fragrant mix
begonia scentsation
coneflowers ruby star, magnus and white swan
balloon flower
helenium autumnale
joe pye weed gateway and chocolate
geum blazing sunset
gaillardia new hybrid mix and burgundy
gaura whirling butterflies
helleborus niger sunset and sunrise
japanese red maple fireglow and bloodgood
liatris purple
lobelia fan salmon and blue

That's just the first 2 days of winter sowing and haven't even sown half of my perennial seeds yet, let alone my annuals! I think I'm going to be plunking and running a lot come spring!!!

Monica

can we wintersow begonia scentsation?
oh i need to go to store to get some seeds!

My first WS! I put 4 containers:

1. Astilbe
2. Buddleia
3. Coneflower
4. Lettuce

Today I sowed:
African Daisy
Cosmos - 2 kinds
Candytuft
Joe Pye Weed
Formosa Lily
Queen Ann's Lace
Cleome - 2 kinds
Giant Noble Spinach

Today I sowed:

Columbine Blue Star
Feather Reed Grass
Light Pink Hollyhocks
Agastache Korean Mint
Liatris Purple
Cornflower Persian
Columbine William Guinness
Coreopsis Tetra Giants
Rudbeckia Irish Eyes
Staghorn Cutleaf Sumac
Lambs Ears
Veronica Spicata Blue(it was hard since it was tiny pods)
Blue Fescue Grass
Perovskia Russian Sage
Shasta Daisy Crazy
Lychnis
Ratibida Mexican Hat

Today I sowed...
1. Kiss me Over the Garden Gate (variegated)
2. Shasta Daisy "Crazy Daisy"
3. Lavender
4. Sweet Rocket Violet" Heirloom
5. Blue Spirea "Bluebeard"
6. Muhlembergia (Purple Muhly Grass)
7. Blackberry Lily
8. Gaillardia Burgandy
9. White Swan Echinacea (2)

10. Hosta (2)
11. Gaillardia Fanfare
12. Cherry Dazzle Crape Myrtle
    Nik

Today I did a few.
1. Columbine (mix)
2. Columbine (native red)
3. Columbine (black barlow)
4. Columbine (pink)
5. Columbine (purple)
6. African foxglove (lavender)
7. Foxglove (fushia)
8. Candy Lily
9. Day Lily (mix)

10. Shasta Daisy Alaska
    11.Gloriosa Daisy
11. New York Aster
12. Pearly everlasting Aster
13. Wild White Aster
14. New England Aster
15. Creeping Bellflower

That is all for today. Tomorrow is a new day!
Bonnie

Today, I sowed...

Hollyhock, red heirloom

Rudbeckia, double gold

Four o'clocks, yellow

Thunbergia, black-eye susan vine

hope it's not too early for Thunbergia & 4 o'clocks...

Today I sowed...

Hosta (sum & substance)
Money Plant
Staghorn Sumac
Hibiscus (hardy)
Clematis (Polish Pride)
Chinese Lantern
Datura Lilac Laflear
Rose Campion
Armerid Bees
Malva Pink
Lambs ear
Coreopsis
White Trumpit Vine
# types of pitcher Plant
Mexican fan Palm- both we and inside thought I would experiment
Dogwood red osier
White Birch
Buchthorn glossy
Elderberry
Evergreen
E. Burning Bush
Lilacs
Canna Red
Canna Marabout
Tennessee Coneflower
Purple Coneflower
Coneflower Ruby Star
False Solomons Seal

That it for today...
Bonnie

calendula
cornflower double mixed colours

Cherokee Purple Tomato
Sugar Baby Melon
Jalapeno Peppers
Cypress Vine White
Mahogany Midget Coreopsis
Lobelia Regatta Blue Splash
7 Giant Crinum Lilies
Pattie

Woo Hoo,
Today i sowed:
Sweet William-(1)Shasta Daisy-(1)
Shirley Poppy-(5)
Agastache-(2)
Calendula-(2)
Shizanthus-(1)
Fever few-(1)
Hyssopus-(1)
Poppy-purple-(3)
Poppy mix-(3)
Poppy'Danish Flag-(2)
Clematis-red-(9)
Gomphrena;Strawberry Fields-(2)
Many more to do in the morning.
Carol