I have been lax in that I have not even done my winter sowing yet but there is still time. It is a winter wonderland here and we just got an additional foot of snow dumped on us. I do envy your nearly year around gardening. Still it must have felt great to have seedlings in hand ready for the ground. The "airiness" of your greenhouse just acclimates your seedlings. Happy day.

I haven't really done any winter sowing either, peren...(apart from some ridiculously spendy poppies and antirrhinums). Growing seedlings is the easy part for me...but planting them out, in any meaningful context, is always fraught with stress and indecision. Happens every year. I grow a bunch of stuff, even with some (vague) theme or plan in mind but in the 18months or so of growing on...all 'plans' tend to be revealed as a mix of wishful thinking (delusional), internet driven impulse or forgetfulness(what was I thinking?) Add in the smattering of fails, completely inappropriate amounts (feast or famine) and rubbish preparation over preceding season and it is not uncommon for the spring planting to be a desperate stuffing and hopeless finger-crossing that more is better (despite firmly reminding enthusiastic customers (when I still had them) that 'less is more'. Looking dubiously at the trays of wildly differing seedlings, I honestly can't see much improvement to the mish-mash this year either Spring is always promising though cos I have a generous hand with bulbs (the gardener's friends) and the general mayhem has not yet gotten fully underway.

I do have 2 trays (40 or so plants) of a particularly vigorous strain of alchemilla and a heap of space under the roses (in one of the beds) so at least one area might be decently filled with suitable plants (instead of the encroaching horrors of geum urbanum and goosegrass (gallium aparine)...although I also have 2 more mannerly galliums to plant up (g.mollugo and g.verum).

So, what's on your list then? I have got off to a slightly shaky start so am keen to get a few simple annuals on the go.

Nowhere close to doing anything outside, let alone planting -- it's been frigid here, with a good blanket of snow. I'd like to get the maple trees trimmed in the next two weeks or so before the sap starts flowing, we'll see.

Indoors, I've got cuttings going, and I'll start starting the seeds relatively soon. I've got a couple things to start next week then the bulk of the indoor sowing starts toward end of March, with a plant-out date of mid-May. It's much different here than where you are. But, I don't mind the winter rest -- gives us cold-climate gardeners time to plan and dream of things to come. :0)