Funny you should ask! I WS it twice and nothing---not a sprout--nothing! I had considered asking also. :)
the one I ws was 'ruby wedding'

anyone have any tips?

no tips from me, I sowed it also, nothing!
cAROL

I also tried sowing it and got no sprouts at all! Gee it seems we are all in the same boat! I wonder what the problem is with it?

I've tried 3 or 4 times and gotten nothing.

One time for me - and nothing.

Lynda

Okay so I got serious and finally looked up how to germinate astrantia. Should have done this before wasting the seeds! :)
anyway below is a bit of info from here on garde nweb. Scroll down to about the fourth post.
I do have a 'few' more seeds, so will try this method.

Here is a link that might be useful: germinating astrantia

Hey, make some room for me in this club, lol! I tried about 3 or 4 times with no luck. I even sowed them early to get the warm-cold-warm cycle, but still no luck.

To my own comfort, at least I haven't tried astrantia as many times as I've tried KMOTGG....

:)
Dee

Hi, I just wanted to share that I sowed some astrantia 2 years ago and didn't get any sprouts so I dumped the jug in my garden bed. I found it growing this year! So don't give up on it! Melissa
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astrantia major reseeds well in my garden. Hybrids do not. Plant seed shortly after collection in early fall.

well I am most definitely going to keep the container and hope that it will actually do something. I won't throw it in the garden in case it comes up and I forget that I did that and weed it out. :)

I wintersowed Astrantia major seeds saved from my garden on 31 December and had sprouts on 13 March. I wanted to do a germination test before offering the seeds for trade this fall. I had almost 100% germination so I guess it's a good thing that I didn't know they were supposed to be difficult.

Looks like I'm not alone, if anyone has any seed to share I'd like to try again. Thanks everyone for your input!

Well I hadn't checked my container for a while. It had been under a bench in the little (ha!!) pot ghetto I have out there. Well I decided to check on it and lo and behold I have babies!! So glad I didn't give up on them. :)
I planted two tiny seedlings in the garden and then decided that they were so tiny that I would pot the rest up. I have five of them in pots now that I am hoping will grow quickly and get to a decent size before the summer ends. I am so excited!

Hibiscusfan I have few seeds left of the 'ruby wedding' and would be happy to share. They came in a swap so not sure if they will come true.

Let me know if you are interested. :)