I'm cheating just a bit - this calendula was only sort of mostly almost WS instead of properly WS, but from this WS season forward all of my calendulas are going to be full fledged WS calendulas!

Here's some nice cheerful calendula color:
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Lynda

Oooooh, Lynda, that's gorgeous!!! I just wish the grasshoppers didn't like my calendulas so much.

Here is my contribution, Barb.

Petunia 'Prism Sunshine'
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Gazania 'Daybreak Bronze'
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Zinnia 'Profusion Apricot'
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WS Tomatoes - Azoychka, Sungold, Cherokee Purple, Black Cherry, Supersweet 100's, San Marzano, and Opalka:
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WS Peas - Sugar Snap and Green Arrow, and some basil
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Here are a couple of perennials sown in '07 that bloomed this summer:

Asclepias tuberosa 'Gay Butterflies'
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Aquilegia chrysantha
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Can't wait to get started on next year's blooms and edibles!

Bonnie

Bonnie - what month do you start your Gazanias?

Lynda

Lynda, this was my first year to grow them, so I had to go back and look at my records. They were sown mid-March (in zone 5), and germinated in less than two weeks. I was a bit nervous about them germinating so early, but they did fine. I planted them in pots on the porch at the beginning of May, and they were in bloom by July. I enjoyed them so much that I've already bought more seeds to sow them next year.

Bonnie

Yvonne's Salvia
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Celosia mahogony midget
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Lobelia cardinalis
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Rud Prarie Sun
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Offspring of prarie sun
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Karen

Lynda the calendula is beutiful. That is a flower winner. Thank you for sharing it. I bought sherbert fizz for this year. Cant wait to grow it.

Bonnie dont ya love petunia prism sunshine. I grew that one too. They have some nice size to them. Those veges sure turned out perfect. I love your camera it takes some really nice pictuers....

Karen oh my goodness that columbine is to die for. yellow and pink. It is a knockout! Karen did you happen to save any seed of the yvonnes salvia? I hate to ask not many people offering seed this year. The one that is offering it is probably a little overwhelmed on the seed forum. Lots of people wanting it. Thanks everyone sure helps me out trying to figure out what to ws. I love the color to in the winter time. Beutiful pictures! Barb

I will have some of the Yvonne's Salvia seeds--- eventually. They're all in a big bag, not in packets yet, no labels made. Christmas will take precedence now. After that, I'll get around to seeds and wintersowing. I'll offer them on the WSing exchange page when they're ready.

When Hurricane Ike came through (in Sept. I think) he took a lot of the seeds with the wind. So, I don't have nearly as many seeds as last year. On the bright side, volunteers will probably come up all over the city next year, sown by Ike's wind.

Karen

Karen LOL Sure would be a pretty volunteer! I will keep a eye out for that post....Happy holidays.....Barb

Such a good idea, Lynda! With the dreary weather going strong, it's nice to remember what we have to look forward to.

Here are mine:
Clarkia Bottae Lilac Pixie
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Morning Glory:
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Great thread, especially on a rainy, dreary day!

My offerings:

Sweet William:

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Petunia 'Shockwave Purple':

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This year's tomato winner:

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And some from previous years:

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PV

Great idea for a thread and gorgeous pictures! So nice to look at on kind of a dreary day.

Here are my pics, all WS in 2008 which was my first year WSing.

Rudbeckia hirta 'Cappucino'
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Aromatic Aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium)
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Salvia 'Coral Nymph'
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Yvonne's Salvia with some WS Cardinal climber on a trellis in the background - the hummers loved them!
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Rudbeckia 'indian summer' on left, 'Irish eyes' on right, and Monarda in the middle - Lemon Bee Balm and Spotted Bee Balm
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An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on the Monarda citriodora
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Sooo many pretty pics, thanks for posting. Oh how I miss the fresh tomatoes. We had snow flurries here, that much closer to wsing. tee-hee-hee.
jan ")

Gorgeous...Gorgeous!!
Here's a few from my garden:

Marigold
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Morning Glory 'Star of Yelta'
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Morning Glory 'Heavenly Blue'
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Common Gaillardia aristata wintersown in 2003
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Rudbeckia hirta and Coreopsis tinctoria
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More Marigold
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Gazania
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Cleome
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Yarrow, Coreopsis tinctoria, Gaillardia 'Burgundy', Larkspur, Lavender, Feverfew and Poppy
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Snapdragon and Salvia officinalis
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Monarda 'Garden Scarlet (not wintersown), Shasta Daisy and Clarkia
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Agastache foeniculum and Knautia macedonica
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Feverfew 'Flore Pleno' and Coreopsis
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Some from my gardens

Dianthus Cheddar Pinks
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Penstemon Dwarf Cambridge Mix
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Canturbery Bells
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Snapdragons
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Cherry Profusion Zinnia
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Melapodium
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Batfaced Cuphea
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Cosmos
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Lauren's Grape Poppy

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Datura and purple veronica
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Balloon Flower, Daisy 'Snowdrift', Coreopsis 'Early Sunrise' Rudbeckia, Achillea in holding bed
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Caryopteris in holding bed
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Buddleia
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Hey Barb,

Here's some more pics.

Fran

Dianthus firewitch WS 2003-2004 my first year

foxglove WS 2005-2006 these are second year of blooms
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candylily WS 2005-2006
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2007-2008 WS annuals

torenia blue and white

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cosmos sunset
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Cosmos diablo
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marigold disco flame
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marigold bolero

viola yesterday, today and tomorrow
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petunias
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dahlia fireworks
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dahlia fireworks different color
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balsam impatiens

dahlia stargazer
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Wow...... beautiful pics everyone!! I love the shot of the butterfly.

Karen, what are the blue flowers in the front of the bed on pic#6, that is a gorgeous combo :-D

Wendey

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Yeiks I didn't take many photos for this year becuase I was busy making Red, White and Blue canned goods for the Fiar in September!

White Delphniums, broccoli, a tye dye poppy

Last year:

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Bouquets for the neighbors
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Tipsy Pots!
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Hi Everybody,
Sorry I havenet posted. I have been checking in to see the pictures though. 12 hour days I am wiped. Thank you for sharing such wonderful and beutiful pictuers I dont even have a favorite they all are so beutiful. This really helps us newbies out on deciding what we want to ws and what zones you all are in. I just love all the flowers they cheer me up after a hard day at work. Big hugs for sharing my ws cyber friends.......Smile Barb

The pics are great. Every time I see some new pics from you guys I want to try them all.
Annette

Kqcrna - I meant to ask - what is the pretty lemon yellow flower in the right front of your bed in the 2nd to last picture?

Vera - love that Coreopsis tinctoria - mixes well with other flowers. I want to WS some!

Fran - love that Stargazer Dahlia - very pretty, but isn't that tender plant? Do you have to dig those up and bring them in?

Wendyzee: Those blue flowers are larkspur gentian blue, linked below.

Terrene: Those yellow flowers, and some golds, are dwarf cosmos, about a foot tall.

Karen

Here is a link that might be useful: Larkspur gentian blue

I have to try the dahlia from seeds again. I didnt have any luck last year. Try try again...LOL Love them and the torenia. Busylizzy love them blue ribbons! Barb

Hello All..

Love looking at all of your pictures..I have been lurking mostly over at the greenhouse forum and a few others. I have WS'd for approximately three years, going on four and really enjoy it..like someone said..it's like Christmas. Here are a few of the seeds I have WS'd..
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Karen, thanks so much for the link, I wondered if the might be a type of larkspur. You have a real eye for color combos, we just bought a house last summer and I have 2 acres and no beds, I guess I'll have my work cut out this spring;-)

Wendey
P.s. I'll be sowing the Yvonne's salvia seeds you sent me last year, I'm so excited!!

Why wait til spring? Or is the ground frozen?

I just spent 5 hours tilling and pulling rocks from what used to be a flower bed. The bed I'm creating is about 20' x 15'. It's an extension of my white garden that I started preparing this summer. Now, I need three loads of leaf mulch. I'm whipped.

Love all of the pics! So beautiful!

I have some coral nymph seeds but really wasn't very excited not having had salvia before. Now I can't wait. Those are gorgeous. I didn't know they had shades of white and pink like that.
Thanks for the color everyone. I really needed that.
I'm starting the ws this year and am so impatient. It has helped my attitude though, I feel like there is a second Christmas just for me around the corner.