That's the spirit, Molly. You're used to challenging projects, you won't believe how easy wintersowing is!
Here are a few more of my wintersown babies

Karen

I also see I'll be buying seeds too.

MollyD

someone in In sent me seeds that arrived today.Cubits username wasn't on the package. I want to say thank you but can't remember who had offered seeds. I have a bed memory. Tonight in church I was rumaging through my bag looking for my glasses. Suddenly I realized that I was seeing everything in the bag clearly! I was wearing the glasses I was looking for (sigh).

MollyD

I winter sowed the onions about now---end of February or beginning of March.
Still have not got it done this year as I am still WS the perennial seed.
Did amsonia, delphiniums and iceland poppies yesterday.

I've got some onion seeds coming soon--I'm going to WS them and see what happens!

I have wintersowed common chives. They're similar to onions...

Karen

Silly question, but are they the chives you put on a baked potato? I guess I'm thinking of an ornimental chive.BTW, they go great with foxglove. Mike

Yes, Mike, we use them on baked potato and salads. My favorite is adding them to mashed potatoes.

They do bloom with pretty purple flowers in spring and early summer.

Karen

I love the accent they make, and will be adding that to my list. Mike

And the chive buds and blooms are very tasty in salad or chopped/torn into mashed potaotes. Even better than the stems, I think. : )

Karen, do those seed about much? I have ones with white flowers. I love the flowers and they look awesome dried, but am forever digging out babies. Not easy to get out, either. I'd never get rid of them, but do have a few choice words every now and then, lol!
Bev

Bev, after the flowers start to fade, I just sheer them off with scissors. I don't allow them to set seed. They look pretty in spring but later in summer they look kind of big and wild. I keep cutting them off. Last fall I yanked and composted most of them. I think I only left one clump. My beds are too crowded and I need the real estate for other things. I figure they are so easy to start that I can always re-sow if I decide I want them.

Karen

I hear ya on the space issue. I suppose I need to deadhead better, but I get busy and a few will get by...sneaky little suckers, lol! Plenty to share I guess. I bought the original ones for .25 from my dd's middle school to support their (then) new greenhouse. They were planted in a Dixie cup.
She's 20 now;)
Your purples are lovely.

Bev, the white ones are probably Garlic Chives, which are worse for seeding around the garden than regular Chives. I'm not always good about deadheading the Chives, and do find a few seedlings, but the Garlic Chives I make sure never to forget- they'll take over.

I'll have to be better about that this year Neal. I do love the flowers on them, though...and where there are flowers...

Heya Ladies and Gents.... finally found my way here.
I'll catch up later... I have to deal with the hosta bed this morning...

Glad to see a WS forum.

Hi Terese! Glad you found your way here

Two more of the cardinal seeds have sprouted so I now have high hopes of having some nice blooms from those this summer.
We are in the 80's this week.

MollyD

hello Terese

Hi, Terese. Glad you finally found us.

Molly, by cardinal flowers, do you mean lobelia cardinalis? or maybe cardinal climber? or???

Karen

The climber