Stitched Myself Up Again!

I do this year after year - start off slowly with good intentions and then I get carried away.
Once again, enthusiasm is in danger of outdoing space.
It started off last autumn with an early sowing of Lobelias laxiflora and tupa and Salvia glutinosa that all germinated.
Then there was the seeds that need a cold spell - Fuchsia procumbens, Impatiens balfouri and Tricyrtis latifolia.

So far it was under control. I started my chillies off just before the cold spell seeds decided to germinate.
By this time I had found seeds for Cubanola, Anigozanthos and the tobacco Tree (Nicotiana glauca) and figured that as they were either slow germinators or, in the case of the Nicotiana, would benefit from an early start I ordered them and sowed them as soon as they arrived.

Then I got involved with seed swapping on this (and another) forum.

So now I have seedlings everywhere! In addition to the above I also have Clittoria, Cassia, Nicotiana langsdorfii and sylvestris, Canna, Cleome, Albucca, Sandersonia, Leonotis, Lathyrus and Iochroma seedlings popping up in ever increasing numbers!

Will we ever learn?

 

No, i've got window sills full of Tomatoes, Peppers, Callaloo, Tobacco & Marigolds.

Only thing that hasn't come up are the Capers. One sure way to make them come up is to do another sowing.

 

Capers eh - hmm - never thought of growing them! Hmm suppose they need a greenhouse?

 

Capers are Tropaeolum aren't they? I've only been waiting five months for my T.tricolorum to germinate so far!

 

It's called ADDICTION!

 

I have too many addictions at the moment - the latest is checking the progress of my Pleiones every five minutes!

I see a flaw in your plan - the g/house will be full by the time that the plug plants arrive!

 

I can understand that feeling Keith. Wouldn't it be nice if we could grow new things and enjoy them for a couple of years and then pass them on - and in return receive a mature plant from someone else.

I am still hanging on to plants that were new a few years ago - but which I can't bear to throw away - now they 'bed blockers' taking up space. I had to be very firm last summer and throw away some 20 or more species of Salvia, that were curiosities rather than first class garden plants. The problem is that once gone I will never see those plants or seeds offered again, as I obtained them from a very generous Salvia specialist.

 

I think that I'm starting to see my gardening a bit like the "bucket list" - grow 'em, bloom 'em and then move on.
I'm also swaying towards bulbous and tuberous plants with a view to colder winters.

 

Where on earth will that lot go Armandii!

Are Monarda easy to grow from seed? The last two winters have finished mine off.

 

If you've got any pictures of your Pleiones I'd love to see them please.