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Every year I start many of my favorite stand-bys from seed - some to replace those that inevitably bite the dust in our gardens, others for our plant sale. But the most exciting plants to start from seed are those that are new to me!

Through my seed trades and exchanges, I always wind up with lots of new things to try. The list below is a sampling of the species and varieties that will be new to our garden this year. The links lead to brief plant profiles (no pictures yet, obviously), with germination results for each variety.

If the list below looks empty, it's probably because all the current season's seedlings have already found places in the garden, and are therefore no longer 'new'.

 

Acaena myriophylla (cadillo) Acaena saccaticupula (goose leaf) Acaena sericea Aethionema thomasianum Agoseris retrorsa (spearleaf mountain dandelion) Allium beesianum Allium caesium Allium daghestanicum Amphicarpaea bracteata (American hog peanut) Antennaria microphylla (little-leaf pussytoes) Aquilegia pyrenaica (Pyrenees columbine) Aquilegia shockleyi (desert columbine) Arisaema tortuosum (whipcord Jack-in-the-pulpit) Asarina procumbens (trailing snapdragon) Astragalus angustifolius Athamanta turbith ssp. haynaldii (candy carrot) Begonia bertini 'Skaugum' Bupleurum spinosum Calochortus luteus (yellow Mariposa lily) Calochortus venustus (butterfly Mariposa lily) Calycanthus floridus (Carolina allspice; sweetshrub) Cirsium japonicum 'White Frosted' (japanese thistle) Clematis terniflora var. mandshurica (Manchurian clematis) Corydalis ophiocarpa Cynoglossum wallichii (prickly houndstongue) Delphinium brunonianum (musk larkspur) Delphinium oreophilum Delphinium patens (spreading larkspur; zigzag larkspur) Dichelostemma capitatum (blue dicks) Dichelostemma ida-maia (firecracker flower) Digitalis viridiflora (green foxglove) Dodecatheon pulchellum (shooting star) Dracocephalum argunense (dragonhead) Edraianthus parnassicus Eriogonum sphaerocephalum var. sphaerocephalum (round-headed desert buckwheat) Festuca mairei (atlas fescue) Galtonia candicans (summer hyacinth) Gazania krebsiana Gelasine elongata

Gilia capitata (blue thimble flower) Gilia tricolor (birds' eyes) Gladiolus anatolicus Haberlea rhodopensis Helianthemum apenninum (white rock rose) Helianthus debilis ssp. cucumerifolius (beach sunflower; cucumber-leaved sunflower) Heliotropium arborescens (heliotrope; cherry pie) Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus (night-blooming daylily) Hosta tardiflora Hypericum latisepalum Incarvillea forrestii (hardy gloxinia) Incarvillea younghusbandii Ligularia fischeri Ligularia przewalskii Lychnis fulgens (catchfly; brilliant campion) Lysimachia ephemerum Michauxia tchihatchewii (Catherine wheel flower) Moraea huttonii Oenothera perennis (small sundrops) Ourisia coccinea Oxytropis shokanbetsuensis (mashikegenge) Paeonia ostii (tree peony) Penstemon hallii (Hall's penstemon) Penstemon ophianthus (snake-flowered penstemon) Penstemon procerus Petrocallis pyrenaica Phyteuma spicatum (spiked rampion) Psylliostachys suworowii (Russian statice; rat's tail statice) Salvia azurea var. grandiflora (azure sage) Salvia microphylla x sagittata (ornamental sage) Salvia taraxacifolia (dandelion sage) Scutellaria resinosa (sticky skullcap; prairie skullcap) Solanum rostratum (buffalo bur) Solanum scabrum (garden huckleberry) Streptopus lanceolatus var. lanceolatus (rosy twisted stalk) Strobilanthes atropurpureus (hardy persian shields) Telekia speciosa (ox-eye daisy) Veronica fruticans (rock speedwell) Veronicastrum sibiricum (culver's root)