Best Flower from seed this year!

Jake'sGran

I am so impressed with the Cosmos I grew from seed this year.It is called Purity and it stands up to any kind of weather. Simply amazing! Most other things have been blown over or suffered from very wet weather but this Cosmos is tough and keeps upstanding.Has anyone else grown it? By the way, it is a very white flower and cheers me up.

emiff6

That sounds just the thing to grow among my delphiniums and foxgloves. I'll get some seeds for next year. Where did you get yours from?
I love tall stuff that will stand up on it's own - can't be doing with having to shove stakes everywhere to support plants.

My best from seed this yr has to be a cheap packet of white alyssum that I put in one thin row along the edge of the veg plot/path to encourage bees etc and add scent. Started flowering in June and has made a solid perfumed carpet of flowers 12" wide, the whole length of the veg patch.

loulou41

Thanks, will remember to plant some seeds next year. Do you have to startt them indoors? My best ones this year were pansies, snap dragons and cornflowers and fuchsias from cuttings.

Starrystarrynight

I grew some 10 week mixed Stocks from seed this year and they were lovely, and so easy! :-)

Jake'sGran

loulou41 wrote: »

Thanks, will remember to plant some seeds next year. Do you have to startt them indoors? My best ones this year were pansies, snap dragons and cornflowers and fuchsias from cuttings.

Yes, you do need to start them indoors. To be honest I always start seeds indoors as my outdoor sowings have never been successful.
I have just looked out of this window and there are three lots of plants still doing well,
Cosmos Purity, Verbena Bonariensis (this is perennial and easy to grow) and Marigolds which I don't like much but it's said that they deter greenfly. I lost my very beautiful delicate fuscias last winter. They were in the potting shed and cold greenhouse.

By the way, Cosmos Purity is unlikely to be found in the discount stores but all the well known seed houses will sell them and maybe
you can get them online from Alan Romans seeds which are all 50p I think.

Orange_King

Tops for me were the Chinese Snapdragon seeds saved from the year before - very prolific and a multitude of colours.

The Calendulas were a close second but I would really like them not to be so straggly looking! There must be a secret to training them!

katiel

Rudbeckias do it for me. I bought a cheap packet from Aldi and it's lasted me two years. I love the way that each plant produces slightly different flowers, and that they're still being brightly yellow and gold even now.

The most robust annuals always seem to be the ones that seeded themselves from the year before. I even have an Earthwalker sunflower that put itself in the middle of the bed in front of my window and was brilliant.

Floozie

I agree with the cosmos flowers-I planted a packet for the first time this year and they are still flowering.

wssla00

Orange_King wrote: »

Tops for me were the Chinese Snapdragon seeds saved from the year before - very prolific and a multitude of colours.

The Calendulas were a close second but I would really like them not to be so straggly looking! There must be a secret to training them!

What type are you growing? I have indian prince and they are really good stocky plants. Definitely going to get more of those for the next year too!