Germinating now- - photos of seedlings

[Véronique Macrelle]

thank you Tristan, this is very precise. This opens up the prospects for a new type of seedling.
 I will test as soon as I have orchid seeds.
 I suddenly remember that last year I also planted Dactylorhiza elata [/ i]. maybe it will bloom this year.

[Gail]

 oh! Gaël's poppies, it's so cute! they look like hairy heads! in which region are the poppies already germinating now? it's not too early?

I'm in the east of England. I've never noticed them doing that before. Those are just some seedheads on the opium poppies that I didn't get round to tidying up - I am glad that I left them as they do look fun and I am interested to see how long they last before freezing/drying out kills them. It has been very damp here and they are in a sheltered spot so have avoided the frosts so far.

[ArnoldT]

Second year growth of Massonia bredasdorpensis

[aldo]

Paeonie seeds are sprouting

[Lesley Cox]

I should be starting a new topic called "Not Germinating Now and Never Likely to do so!" Because I am soon to be moving house and garden, I have been tidying assorted drawers, shelves and piles of paper on the floor. I am shocked to have found many packets of seed, batches in margarine pots and various other containers and even some seeds still encased in their original capsules. There are more than 100 different kinds. Was I just lazy and didn't get around to sowing them? Did I get distracted and did something else instead ? or perhaps at least some are the result of having been taken off the job such as a couple of occasions when I went into hospital. Some packets are labelled with the year 2014 so perhaps it was a bit of all these causes of what has been shameful neglect and waste.  So more in hope than with the expectation of real results I have put the lot into a box and as soon as the move is complete I'll sow the lot, a few likely candidates in individual seed pots and the less likely ones in trays in a hotch potch mixture and hope that something  comes of it all. I'll need about 4 trays each big enough to  take the equivalent of 20 or more packets. Something may germinate or nothing may germinate, time will tell.

I mention this now because in today's post, there came a little packet of seed of one of the Australian Celmisia species, C. saxifraga. In case he reads it here, I would like to assure the sender that his precious seed is already sown and placed in a cool place, ready to join other seed pots for the journey north in a few weeks.

[François Lambert]

Bergeranthus Vespertinus from the seed exchange 2021-2022 germinating, sown about a week ago.
And I wanted to have a few seedlings of buddleja Davidii, so just before pruning the schrubs a couple of weeks ago  I have sown some seeds.  The result ... I can plant an entire forest of Buddleja if I want.

[ruweiss]

Dianthus microlepis from wild seed
Hepatica nobilis

[GordonT]

In my search for other colour forms of Clivia miniata, I bought three packets of seed from red, yellow, and peach/pink flowered plants. They were sown as soon as they arrived on November 24th. This is how the red and yellow seedlings look today.



I am looking forward to what these red flowered plants will produce. The pigmentation at the base and underside of the leaves,is very strong.



The yellow seedlings have been much slower to develop, and the leaves are decidedly narrower than the red seedlings. I only had a single seedling from the peach/pink seed lot, but it is growing well. Given some time,I hope each plant will add to our current display

[Rick R.]

Nice, healthy clivias!

- Aetheonema membranacea
- Anthemis cretica ssp. carpatica
- Codonopsis clematidea:Left-seed scratched into surface+grit. Right-seed covered+grit
- Lupinus argentea - wild seed from Colorado
- Rindera sp.

[Rick R.]

- Salvia canescens var. daghestanica

[Carolyn]

Nice, healthy clivias!


- Codonopsis clematidea:Left-seed scratched into surface+grit. Right-seed covered+grit

So it prefers to be surface sown then. Observations like this are very useful - thanks!

[Mike Ireland]

Lewisia cotyledon sown December 2021.
Physoplexis comosa second year seedlings.

[Maggi Young]

Lewisia cotyledon sown December 2021.

Sorry you only had so few seeds, Mike!!! 

[Mike Ireland]

Sorry you only had so few seeds, Mike!!! 

Maggi, I collected the lewisia seed & misplaced them, found them back end of the year dried out & thought sow them anyway.
Within a couple of weeks the whole lot had germinated.  Seems seed does not always have to be fresh. 

[Maggi Young]

Reinforces my opinion, Mike- "if in doubt, sow it" !!