Have you tried winter sowing vegetable and ornamental plant seeds? If not, give it a try this winter. Many seeds, including tomato seeds and your favorite perennial seeds, do unbelievably well using this method.
I found there are conflicting photos on the net for the Penstemon virgatus Blue Buckle... hate it when sites do that but here are some.. seems some have white in it and some don't
I wonder if that has to do with growing conditions?
Wild Ginger Farm shows it as a solid color, you'll have to scroll down the page. http://wildgingerfarm.com/Pens...
I always am suspicious of the photos submitted to the photo link you gave above. If you look just a couple of rows down they are showing daylilies as penstemon.
oh google images will pull the most relevant first then add in photos that match just one word.. like buckle.. the further down the list.. less likely to be what you are looking for
Lynn, I have Wsown the ipomoea alba. But it didn't bloom until, Ithink, September. The flowers were beautiful and fragrant at night when they finally bloomed. I thought the vine kind of ugly though. And I want things to bloom earlier, in summer. So I've never grown it again.
I'm going to try wintersowing moonflower vine myself this year.
And some various echinacea for sure.
Not sure what else yet.
Wonder if wintersowing my tomatoes and peppers would get me earlier fruit???
No on the earlier tomatoes. I wintersow my tomatoes in late winter-early spring. They generally produce fruit at times appropriate to their DTM. For earliest possible fruit, do a short DTM variety.
I usually do a short, medium, and long DTM variety.
Same here on the tomato time table. But you can get them out and have earlier tomatoes by warming up your soil with black plastic. When it's warmed up enough plant your tomato seedling and either use wall-o-water or tent them with clear plastic, kind of like making a mini greenhouse. You can have ripe tomatoes eairlier that way.
