Non Hybrid zinnias are annuals but they made it through a little nipped but the best part is when they go to seed you can sprinkle them all over the soil.
My native red salvia is showing off right now as is Double knockout and other roses.Lavendar,still blooming!Butterfly bushes,ok,gaura seems fine they are pretty dormant right now. I did see some rudbeckia leaves,they usually stay beneath the soil til spring anyway.
tanya

my gaura "wh. butterflies" made it through the big freeze here but I didn't start it from seed. Cuttings would be better, maybe buy one plant and start cuttings. That would be way quicker than seeds in gaura's case.

One terrific plant from seeds that also came through the freeze still blooming is Gaillardia. In my yard it blooms in many different colors. I started out with purchased plants: 1 yellow and one the regular orange stripes and it has mutated and mixed together into many different patterns and colors.
I can send seeds, PM me.

Here's a photo I posted before where they volunteered in my driveway (lower part) and jumped up to my neighbors yard (upper level). Neither area gets any attention and only rainfall.
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Denise

I have good luck with Coral Nymph Saliva and the native red salvia from seed. Also Mexican sunflower Tithonia, Blanketflower, Cut and Come Again Zinnias, Cleome. The good thing about most of these is that they can be planted in the spring and fall and will take the cold MOST winters. Of course not this one. The Blanketflower was in a pot and I tucked it under some big plants and it made it. Other pots I brought in.

I forgot about zinnias. I have done some zinnias from seed in the past and were pretty happy with them.

I have the coral nymph and I do love it. It is one of the plants I can always count on to reseed.

I have not had very good luck with cleome of tithonia but I think I will give them another shot. They are great flowers.

I had a Gaillardia last year and is was fantastic until late summer and it died but it sure did put on a great show while it lasted.

I have never tried gaura form seed, but they were so great in my garden last year that I really want them in my garden again... alot more of them.
I had purchased 6 beautiful compact hybrid form of gaura from Crowelys last year. They bloomed beautifully and were a bright pink that I loved. I have never seen that same variety again. But unforunately the have all died. If I am lucky Crowelys will get them again.

goldenpond, what kind of lavender do you have? I have never had much luck with lavender, but I wish I did. I love the look and smell of lavender.
imagardener, love the picture. I can't believe that started out as only 2 plants. Your Gaillardia looks great!