Lotsa things going on now, mainly with seedlings inside. I had the cutest little thing show up from seed in the garden a couple years ago; It must have come from re-used potting soil, as I've tried to grow alpine Thlaspi spp. before without success.
It was about 4 inches high.
I had such a good crop of seed coming from it.
And then a bunny ate it.
So as I peruse the NARGS seed ex, I'm always on the watch for the genus. This year I noticed an unfamiliar plant listed, one I've never heard of before, so I looked it up: Noccaea densiflora, formerly part of the Thlaspi genus, and it was similar, if not the same as my volunteer. Of course, I had to order it. I received lots of seed, and I planted generously, and it all came up in 5-7 days.
never a good thing to try to grow too many plants in a pot, so ...
Now that's a little better.
A tip for anyone wondering about the second round ordering of NARGS seed: sometimes you get the original package from the donor, with a ton of seed. This happened to me with Anthemis cretica ssp. carpatica. (FYI, even though it is from Crete, it is Minnesota winter hardy.) So planted that, too.
Last year, I planted my own Taraxacum albidum seed, and only one came up. I already have a lot of them, so early this winter, I brought it inside to see I could get it to bloom for show and tell at a local rock garden meeting. A couple weeks after I brought it in, new seedlings started sprouting so they got potted up. I also planted T. pseudoroseum from the seed ex.
T. pseudoroseum, 19 days old from sprouting and T. albidum, 42 days old.
Some of my other seedlings. Some the photos here have a yellow cast. It's because I was futzing with the white balance on my camera under different light and I forgot to change it back.
Origanum rotundifolium, 6 days and Draba dedeana, 21 days
Aquilegia viridiflora, 5 days and Erigeron pinnatisectis, 8 days
Erigeron compositus compact form, 25 days and Astragalus purshii var. tinctus, 23 days. Regular E. compositus would be 5x larger. I scarified the Astragalus seed between sandpaper, but ended up doing way too much. I am surprised I got more than a couple seedlings. As you see if you look close, a few came up and died, I assume because I had damaged the seeds so badly.
Alyssum sp.,10 days and Alyssoides utriculata, 10 days.
Physaria alpina, 23 days and Dianthus callizonus, 25 days.
Two different lots of Anthemis cretica ssp. carpatica. Both with same age seedlings. I tend to be not very attentive with any of my seedlings, and they are often water stressed and don't grow as quickly because of that. (But they tend to stay shorter, too.) So this is a study of ample water (the fewer larger seedlings) versus enough water.
Physoclaina orientalis, 10 days and Noccaea densiflora, 24 days.
Wow. Do you have space for all those?
