Nice pics! I might be wrong, but I think your Salvia 'Blue Queen' isn't who it professes to be.

Token,
are the yellow flowers Rudbeckia?

Jaynine, I bought those seeds from Park Seeds. Are you telling me I have something else? Anyone have pics of their Blue Queen Salvia?

Yes Ellen, those are rudbeckia hirta. They perform as an annual here, starting to bloom in May and continuing all the way through the summer to the first frost takes them out.

token, your Salvia seedlings look more like Rose Campion, if I am not mistaken.
Beautiful WS babies. My tomatoes are still a couple inches tall. :-)

Very nice! Token you will not believe this but using my walk in container to WS my maters worked like a charm! In zone 5 I have blossoms on the maters! Whooo Hoo! I feel a bit like I cheated, but I did not heat it so I guess I really did not cheat. I really need to figure out how to post pics. Really should put to use the nice SLR I got for Mom's day.

My rudbeckia is going gangbusters and I have flowers on my grape tomato plants I grew from seed. Started them indoors in my south facing window back in March but moved them outside in April and just kept protecting them against frost. They've been outside almost 2 months. The Stupice tomato seeds I WS sprouted and are only a few inches tall but they're healthy and growing fast. My mouth is watering for that first ripe tomato of the season. Already ate my first salad from lettuce I WS.
daisydawnny, if you figure out how to post pictures, I'd be interested in reading about how to do it too. I've got the digital camera figured out and I can download them to my computer and upload them to snapfish.com. The challenge continues to be how to get them from snapfish.com into a post.

My first impression was Lychnis coronaria, too, but I'm not so sure. Posting a pic on the 'name that plant' forum would probably get you an accurate ID fairly quickly.

Im just jealous of the tomato flower!!!

All of my wintersown ones got zapped.. a few sprouted late, but its just too late to get them going now..

I will have to buy a plant or two to have anything this year..

that late frost really hurt me!

Silverkelt

Ugh...those better not be more Rose campion. I already have a ton of those. Here's what wintersown.org says they should look like. I'm thinking Park Seed mislabeled something.

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Token do the leaves of this unknown look kinda spotty or splotched looking? I have a shrimp plant outside that I think looks similar.
Tammy

Wow. Salvia is in the sage family and I wouldn't expect those leaves, either. I thought they looked like Rose Campion, too. When you said they were Salvia I just figured I had more to learn. But, they sure don't resemble any sages I've seen, and I've seen hardly any. That means my opinion doesn't mean much. But, next year, when I'm in Gardening Graduate School, I'm sure I'll have the definitive answer for any question!

My Parks Seeds have mostly done well. Two (maybe three, can't remember) no shows, but one of my most wanted (Nepeta faasssseeeennnniiiii--can't ever remember how to spell that-- 'Felix') I MIGHT have three seedlings. Just might. I'm waiting for the true leaves to get large enough to post pictures.

token, I went out and took a pic of the shrimp plant. I noticed it feels similar to sedum autumn joy. The leaves close to the bottom arent splotched like the upper ones. And without glasses on, I wasnt sure if your was. But the others are right I think, They do look similar to rose campion.
Tammy
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Token, I can't tell from the picture, but are the leaves fuzzy? The shape looks like lamb's ear to me, but I'm sure you would have recognized that one.

Bev

The leaves are fuzzy and gray, like rose campion, but I don't think that's what it is. The seeds were round, like a salvia, but those leaves aren't salvia. It never really occurred to me until I posted these images. So now I have to wonder what Park Seed sent me.

Your salvia picture looks somewhat like my nicotiana seedlings, which are somewhat fuzzy. Could be that, maybe?

I don't think it's nicotiana. The seeds were too large for that. But then again, maybe I'm remembering something different. I did sow nearly 1000 containers this winter. My nicotiana seedlings are already blooming though. These are still just sitting there. I'm leaning towards Rose Campion.

Well salvia blooms the first year from seed. Shame I wasn't here in october when you guys did the trade cause token I have some blue queen and victoria I would of been happy to see you grow. Also the blue queen looks alot like the victoria while still a seedling it is hard for me to tell a difference in the 2 until they start to bloom.

Oh by the way my husband and I were driving down an old country road and we found a field of queens anne lace and the blue finches were all over in that field. I remembered last year when you were actually looking for some now that I see how it attracts the blue finches I may have to rethink my thought of the plant.

Carolyn, I'll be happy to save some Queen Anne's Lace seed for you in the fall in exchange for some Blue Queen Salvia. Just remind me. I'll have a lot if last year is any indication. I've got reseeds popping up all over.

My new favorite white lacy flower is Orlaya grandiflora. It's related to QAL and carrots. Nice, huh?

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I would love to save you some seeds mine have just started to fully bloom. I am not sure I am ready for the queens anne lace in my garden from what I hear my neighbor saying about it, lol. The finches were wonderful to watch diving in and out of it though.

Culinary sage (Salvia officinalis) has fuzzy leaves, maybe Parks mixed them up?

Tom - My wintersown Salvia 'Blue Queen' babies look like yours too. My sister also sent me a small plant she purchased in Kansas and the mature leafs on it look different but the first few leafs on the stems look like ours. I've planted them out and time will tell.

Sandy

Token: Centurna Montana blue aka Perennial Bachelor buttons come to mind when I see that " blue salvia"

Here is a link that might be useful: is this it?

It's not Mountain Bluet. I have that in another area and the seedlings are much different. The leaves are longer than these.

Guess we'll just see what I get when they bloom. They still haven't grown much.

It took me long enough to take a picture but here it is.
This one is the salvia blue bedder it is actually about a foot taller than my estella d oro day lillies. Guessing I would say about 3 to 4 feet tall. This is my second year to grow this one. I started it last year from seed that I purchased from wally world (walmart). $1.00
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Here is my salvia victoria it is actually about a foot and a half in total height. This is approximately my 4th year for this one though I bought it on an end of the year clearance sell and it was sold as an annual. 3 pack for like $0.25. Excuse where I haven't deadheaded my silver princess shasta daisy. LOL that is my favorite daisy and I try to give everyone that trades with me or that gets an sasbe from me some of these seeds.
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I also like to say that yes they are a little more blue in the pictures than what they truly are.

Back to token's post, I'm loving Orlaya too. It seems to just keep on blooming. I had thought it was an annual, but this is its second year in the same spot, and it is bigger and much "bloomier" this year. I hear WSowers mention it often. Does it live long?

Hepatica