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Seedlings new to our garden

 

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'.

 
Agave victoriae-reginae (Queen Victoria agave)
Agrostis nebulosa (cloud grass)
Arisaema erubescens
Aristaloe aristata
Babiana tubulosa (baboonflower)
Bouteloua gracilis (blue grama)
Chamaelirium luteum (blazing star; fairy wand)
Cherleria laricifolia
Crocanthemum carolinianum (Carolina rockrose; Carolina frostweed)
Deuterocohnia longipetala
Diplarrena latifolia
Erythrina flabelliformis (coral bean)
Geissorhiza erosa
Gossypium herbaceum (Levant cotton)
Helichrysum amorginum
Helichrysum splendidum (everlasting)
Hypericum graveolens (mountain St. John's wort)
Phaseolus polystachios (thicket bean, wild kidney bean)
Tephrosia virginiana (goat's rue)