Just finished with grape hyacinth, spanish wood hyacinth...soon for perennial dianthus, astilbe...and acanthus (if I can figure out how to catch those seeds before they pop!
--Tina

So far, only my Salvia "Lady in Red". The columbines are shaking and rattling, yet still green. They're next for sure, to be followed by the coreopsis, since the goldfinches have started hitting the heads ;)

I have Virginia bluebells, grape hyacinths, wild red columbine, chives and blue cornflower that I have collected so far. The only seed I'm collecting right now are orange gerber daisy. My wisteria bloomed this year and it has a lot of seed pods, but its going to be a while before they are ready. My Echinacea tennesseensis are doing really well this year. I'll probably have 300 blooms this year to collect seed from.

Okay; the columbines are opening and I started harvesting yesterday. So far, 9 5oz cups are cluttering up my florida room, and there's sooooo many more to harvest! I really have to chill out on harvesting them; there's just too many. I forgot that I already harvested the muscari hyacinths too, and just cut back my Salvia "May Night", so those heads are in a large plastic container, opened of course. All these heads are sooooooooo wet; I can't take this rain anymore :(

So sorry to hear about the rain out east!

I harvested several varieties of coreopsis today along with persian cornflower. Yesterday I harvested some dianthus and summer sowed them. I also managed to harvest some Sweet William.

The Oriental poppies are ready too. Tracey, let me know if you need anything.

Hi Bakemom! I just started collecting this week and so far i have: black hollyhocks, poppies, portulaca magic carpet, nicotiana, larkspur, a bit of snapdragons, and some digitalis! I love seed saving! Now if I can just get them dried out and packed up without someone knocking them all over the place!

I've just harvested trollius europaeus, dianthus, and viola. This is a good thread--I would love early trades of really fresh seed...

Constance.

Right now the only seeds I really know how to harvest are my columbines...........have soooo many........and my delphinium. I wish the other seeds were so easy to find!

Haziemoon

I started harvesting a couple of weeks ago. So far, I've got

Centranthus ruber, "Jupiter's Beard", "Red Valerian"
Abutilon "Flowering Maple" -'Rosalie'
Nicotiana mutabilis
Clematis, "Versailles"
Scabiosa columbaria, "Blue Pincushion Flower"
Pericallis X hybrida, "Florist's Cineraria"
Salvia roemeriana, "Hot Trumpets"

I have fresh daylily seeds, butterfly iris, Bells of Ireland, Giant hollyhock, butterfly weed (red and yellow) sweet peas, snapdragons, poppies, calendulas, sunflowers, sunflowers, sunflowers, zinnia, purple coneflower, orchid tree, and I am just opening some of the gourds that I grew last year. You have to let them dry thoroughly before you can cut them, lest they rot, so I am just now having the fun of harvesting those seeds.

I love saving seeds!

Janie

I am getting some Pansy seeds but do not know if I'm getting them too soon.

I started Lunaria over the weekend and got my first harvest of Larkspur! Coreopsis and Columbines are finished. The nigella has started to open in a few spots and I have dried a few nice trades.

I've been collecting several so far. California Poppy, Foxglove, Rose Campion, Daylily, Autumn Lollipop, Cleome, Cosmos, Zinnia, just to name a few. This is my absolute favorite part of gardening.
Alice

Bachelor buttons, money plant (purple), nicotiana,
columbines are all done.

Its my favorite too, but still just learning. I do have a bunch of candytuft, Siberian Iris, 4 o'clocks, and Blue Flax. Hope to start havesting much more in the next week. I got a late start due to the cool spring here.

I have never harvested by blue flax, so you have one up on me. I am busy with Nigella and lunaria. The larkspur are starting to crack, so I'm following them. My hollyhocks aren't ready yet.

I really think this is the best part of gardening!

Just got a couple hundred seeds of petunia, can't remember the variety but I know they won't come true to the parent from what I've read about them.., columbine are ready, as is dianthus and so far that is all I have really looked at, my daylilies aren't ready yet, but will keep an eye on them.
Also while thinking of it, do I have to cold stratify the petunias? I have never saved them before so this will be a first for me..
Great Gardening!!
Kathy

I'm harvesting lupine seeds, Sweet William seeds, and red poppy seeds. Still waiting for the hollyhocks to finish. I also harvested seeds from my Johnson Blue Geranium.

Kathy, I wintersow my petunias - start them in pots outside in February (see the Wintersowing Forum) - works great! Sometimes you get lucky with petunias - I had a mix of Blue Daddy, Strawberry Sundae, and Prism Yellow that came back reliably for a few years. I discovered to my delight that my doubles are coming back doubles - not like the originals - my Pirouette Red & White is coming back a dark pink ("red" classification for petunias), but it is coming back as a double.

Zinnia ELegans (yellow)
Zinnia Orange Profusion
Purple Liatris

Hollyhocks
Rudbeckia Sonora
Heliopsis Summer Sun
Plains Coreopsis
More Lunaria!

Just got some petunia seeds yesterday, possibly Zinnia not sure their fully mature yet and some off one of my mom's mystery wildflower.

i picked some violet seed pods this evening & put them in a paper coin envelope to dry. for the past hour, i've been hearing periodic popping inside the envelope, as the drying pods spray the seed. it's kind of awesome.

datura
four o'clocks
canna
nicandra
hibiscus
Mexican petunia

hibuscus
petunia
tiger lily
daylilies
lupine
sunflower
coneflower
nicotiana

hollyhocks
coreopsis
catnip
monardas
echinacea
agrimony
cucumber
Mexican sunflower

Geneovese Basil
Boston Pickler Cucumber
A wierd Spearmint that I bought before I knew that real Spearmint is a sterile hybred, but I like the smell and the little bugs love the flowers.

Best Wishes
Amino-X

Campanula persicifolia
Cornus canadensis
Meconopsis grandis
Meconopsis x sheldonii
Papaver croceum
Primula auricula

Ian

Sunflowers
hibiscus
yucca
rose of sharon
hosta

Brenda