Congratulations, you will have a lovely assortment of flowers for bouquets. Where did you get your Pak Choi? We love it in stir fries. Looking forward to some pics.
Northerner.

I've had some of both. More success, though and plenty of fun!

One of the funniest experiences was failing at wintersowing portulaca only to find some seedlings from last year's crop growing in the crack between the sidewalk and asphalt of the street in front of our house.

I carefully pulled them up and transplanted them and they started blooming last week! LOL

I must say I've had lots of success, but also some that I'm not sure yet.
Amaranthus hasen't done a darn thing, I was most excited for that one,but also no clarkias, and some of the zinnias didn't appear.
I will direct sow the others.
I had purple coneflower, dianthus, sweet william, daisies,bachelor buttons, chleome, wildflowers,nasties,four-o-clocks,foxies,h.h,bells-of-Ireland, and lots more that I can't think of at the moment.

I had great success with germinating but quite a bit of failures when planting them out. I plan to use more 12oz cups next year since they were easier to plant out and had a better survival rate for me. It is tedious to sow them but worth the effort in the long run. I might even try using paper pots for the annuals.

Joanne

My success rate has been so-so. I've got about 20 containers that still haven't germinated at all (about 80% did germinate of the total containers sown).

As for my seedlings, my cosmos, mexican daisies and sunflower elfs are growing like gangbusters. As for the rest...not so much. Doesn't surprise me in the least for the perennials I planted out. I assumed they'd take at least a year or two to establish themselves.

But I'm surprised at the slow growth rate for the annuals. Stuff like Canterbury Bells, Bells of Ireland, etc. Those are growing INCREDIBLY slow.

I've "fertilized" them w/ compost tea but since I refuse to use chemical fertilizers (or chemicals of any kind) in my garden, I'm still just waitin' for them to show some semblance of a growth spurt. At this rate, they won't bloom until Sept.

I had more failures than successes, but hey, I am new to this. I chalk it up to my own neglect. My successes look great though, even if they haven't hit their growth spurt yet. I guess they are waiting for the warmer weather too, which is finally here.