Germinating now- - photos of seedlings

[meanie]

Great to see the Musschia, how exciting.

And here 19 Isoplexis canariensis sown in early August. Should we force them to go dormant soon?

johnw

Growing on well - and for a campanulaceae, it looks a lot like a primulas at this stage, eh? !!

The survivors are doing well. However, it is a fickle thing whilst small. Critical not to over water (even to a certain extent at this stage) and it dislike too much temperature variance (leastways, the ones in the greenhouse gave up the ghost whilst the ones on the seedling bench outdoors were fine despite being fairly cool).

As far as the Isoplexis seedlings go I'm not sure. I grew I.isabelliana from seed last year - a couple shut down for the winter and never really got going again. The rest carried on growing slowly and did far, far better.

[Jupiter]

I'm having some success with species Liliums this year. I've got germination of Lilium concolor var. strictum, L. pardalinum and L. pumilum. All looking very healthy and growing on. I'm confident that I can get them through to flowering size... but we will see.

[Mike Ireland]

Saxifraga oppositifolia ex Theoden sown July 2014

[Roma]

A bit blurry,but I hope you can see it.  Geranium farreri sown in July.  The label says 2 seeds.  There should have been more seeds later but I forgot to keep checking if they were ready. 

[Roma]

I had Campanula thyrsoides flowering last year and did not think it had set seed but found these seedlings when weeding neighbouring pots.

[Lori S.]

A bit blurry,but I hope you can see it.  Geranium farreri sown in July.  The label says 2 seeds.  There should have been more seeds later but I forgot to keep checking if they were ready.

Sorry for the following being out of context of the post, but where did you manage to find seeds of Geranium farreri?  I would love to grow this again.

[Roma]

The seed I sowed this year came from my own plant.  I've had the one plant for a number of years, grown from exchange seed.  I think it still has the label so can check the year in daylight.  This is the first time I have seen seed on it.  I wish I had remembered to check it more often as it did set more seed. 

[Lesley Cox]

I have just the one, which is attractive enough, but I'm just not sure I can relegate it to the veg garden. I will likely put it in the ornamental border as I'm looking forward to the flowers as much as the textural foliage.

I love the flowers too. They're very pretty and smell of wild honey. Unfortunately I have to keep a wire basket over mine as the bunnies just LOVE it!

[Lesley Cox]

Sorry for the following being out of context of the post, but where did you manage to find seeds of Geranium farreri?  I would love to grow this again.

Helen in New Brunswick sent me 3 seeds and they all germinated. I gave one sdlg to Louise at Hokonui and the other two are flowering now in a trough, still very small plants but doing nicely.

[johnstephen29]

I sowed some seeds of Galanthus Transcaucasia & Galanthus lagodechianus in late March, surface sown then covered in grit, put outside in a shelted spot & left to there own devices, only watering when needed. I noticed the other day a little grass like shoot in the Transcaucasia pot.


Galanthus Transcaucasia seedling by johnstephen29, on Flickr

[jandals]

Seed of Anisotome latifolia that have germinated underneath the parent plants . This is the first time I have since this and wonder if the weather is responsible . There has been rainfall on 23 days so far this month and 20 days last month

The parent plants are flowering well at the moment

[Maggi Young]

That's a lot of rain, Steve. (I'd be getting worried about foot rot!!   )

The "proud parent"  plants are indeed looking fantastic   

[jandals]

Yes Maggi , I'm wearing my wet weather freeflow jandals to stop the rot .

Ian and Ann Christie are well but have yet to enjoy the climate in the far south . I'm sure there will pictures of them soon

[Maggi Young]

I'm heartened to hear you are taking sensible (?!!) precautions, Steve. 

Can't help feeling that if the Christies wanted to get soaked they could have stayed at home! 

[fermi de Sousa]

I'm heartened to hear you are taking sensible (?!!) precautions, Steve. 

In dangerous areas Steve has his steel-toe caps to protect him!
cheers
fermi