Just gorgeous! I'm smiling here because I've done all the same except for the pretty pink vitex--I didn't even know there's a pink vitex, lol. In my garden those Easter Tiger Swallowtails LOVE the purple butterfly bushes--seems to be their favorite in the whole garden.

Great photos and congrats on the germination and excellent shrubs you've now got on your property. Over the years I've done several, beyond the types we share in your photos I've also done crepe myrtles, Ohio redbuds, and a mystery shrub--I have no idea what it is but it's got nice leaves ;-) I know there's been several others but I've forgotten what they were or where they've wound up--I've given so many of them away.

T

I love the vitex! Nice to see it grows in your zone. I have a few seedlings and was worried about whether they'd be hardy here.

Lynda

Really really nice!! I have done ROS and transferred it to my mother's property - she doesn't have deers. It is growing nicely.

The Butterfly bushes I have winter sown have been much hardier than bought ones and some are going on 7 years now.

I like the Vitex and will have to get more info. Looks like another winner. Do you gather seeds from it?

A couple of years ago I tried Weigela Middendorfiana and now I have two growing in the gardens. Hoping for blooms next year. I also have seedlings of the Japanese Royal Azalea and hope they make it through this coming winter. :O)

I've had success with Beautyberry and Winterberry. The Beautyberry is just starting to get berries this year but the winterberries are too young to have blossoms yet. The winterberries took 2 seasons to sprout and they were a surprise when they came up in an old container I had given up on!
Your shrubs are beautiful!!!
Joann

I've winter-sown several shrubs and 1 tree so far. Last year, New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americanus), got lots of sprouts, put them in pots, and they didn't make it through the winter. :(

This year I started Flowering Dogwood, Silky dogwood and Fringetree. The dogwoods are doing great, the Fringe tree hasn't sprouted yet (they are warm-cold-warm stratification seeds).

I think it's cool to start shrubs and trees from seed, although they will take years to flower and I don't really have any place ready to plant them either!

They're all so beautiful Don. I WS white flowering dogwood, kousa dogwood, lilac & rose of Sharon (several colors) from seeds I harvested here and there. The lilac sprouted but didn't survive the monsoon rains back in April/May. The rest are growing by leaps & bounds.
I don't have any place picked out where I can plant them but there's almost a full acre to choose from when they get big enough for permanent homes. I'll try & remember to snap a few pictures and post them.