Very pretty. Love the fringe on the dianthus, may have to give them a try.

Karen

Wow, your heuchera looks wonderful, and I love the strawberries and cream nasturtium...so pretty! I like that fringed dianthus too. I WS'ed some heuchera last year, but seem to have lost them after planting them out...I'll try them again this year.

Thank you for posting your lovely photos!

I wsed some red heleniums a couple of years in a row but got yellow. Finally gave up and bought one. I hope the seeds it produced will give me results like yours!! Nice! :O)

I had my helenium autumnale 'Red Shades' reseed on its own and the seedlings bloomed a bunch of different colors, a few yellow, a few solid reds, oranges and red, red and yellow, etc... Unfortunately, I had to cut them all back while in bloom to relocate them or else I would have saved seeds for trading this year. Maybe next year.

Karen

topie, I was really impressed with the size of the flowers on dianthus lovelyness too. They were three inches across.
Tiffy, this is my first year with the helenium and I really like them. I got a mix of seeds and many colors, the one I showed is just my favorite one so far.
Karen, sounds like you got a nice mix. I'm sure you will see them come back just as beautifully. I need to get up on my seed saving, there is just a lot more since I stared winter sowing.

Here are a few more from this year.
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And the new bed I put in for all my winter sowing babies.
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Very pretty. So nice to see nice fresh flowers. Everything here is fried.

Karen

I know what you mean Karen, most of my stuff is looking pretty ragged but the Cosmos are still going strong and several others. I really need to remember how much I love my winter sown annuals and how long they last every year. Also that even when I take forever getting stuff started that just means I will have color when all the other flowers have given up for the year.

candy cane zinnia was a favorite this year.
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Ditto what Flood said about WS annuals. Most of my garden has gone dormant and I've cut back most of the perennials, but the cosmos just keeps getting better and better. I have cosmos plants that are just now starting to bloom and have 10-20 buds on each plant. It makes it hard to think about pumpkins and fall decorations!

Martha

I mean my stuff is literally fried. Hot, hot summer and no rain for months= fried. I can't even remember when we last had any rain, but my guess would be over 2 months. We are around 7.3" below normal rain. Severe drought. I gave up long ago.

Karen

We got the same heat but it sounds like a bit more rain than you kqcrna. Did you have to conserve water? It was a really hot summer this year. I had a hard time keeping up with my watering. I suppose I'm lucky I just have 1/4 an acre to cover and that including the house and driveway as well as garage.

Hi all! New to the winter sowing forum and super excited to try it this year. I first heard about it from a friend who goes to the Middle Tn Plant Swap; apparently it was a teaching topic last year! I'm hoping we go over it again this Sat when we meet again.

Floodthelast - thank you for your all the great tutorials on winter sowing! In your second picture post, what are those flowers' names? One looks like a candy or blackberry lily?

Omigosh I gotta start seed swapping too:D

Here is a link that might be useful: MTPSwap

Yup heathersgarden, that is a blackberry lily. I loved it so much I both collected it from that flower and traded for more.
I'm really pleased you liked the tutorial, I was hoping it would be helpful.
Hmm in that post of pics the first one is an annual calendula, the second is blackberry lily, the third is gold goblin gaillarida a new personal favorite and the last one is an annual gaillardia called razzle dazzle.

Do check out the seed trading forum. Everyone is very nice and I currently have a trades going on my calendula mix and gold goblin gaillardia as well as four o clocks. : )

I'd like to share with you all a link to my professional pics of my flowers and flowers of friends and places I've been. If it's a calendula it's mine though. These are the best of the best of my photos.

http://www.agefotostock.com/age/ingles/isphga01.asp?actual=1&querystr=&id=40160205&vertf=0amp;ph=kristina+dewees&keyph=

Hey Flood - couldn't see the photos. Got this error message:

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That's strange. They are still showing up for me. Thanks for letting me know Pam.