Chelle: Your gardens are beautiful ! I like lambs ears, too. It makes a great contrast like you said. What are the "iris-looking" plants in the top 2 pictures? And, the red flowers...monarda ???
Neal: I do winter-sow a few things, like sweet peas, calendulas, salpiglosus (sp?) but I don't have room for much more than starting them in 6 packs. My garden is miniscule...it's only 2500 sq. ft. but it's packed to the gills...can you say OCD ?
You're right: They do grow a lot of things here for cut flowers...larkspur, delphinium, ranunculus, statice, gypsophila, cornflowers, stock, etc. A friend of mine and her husband have a florist shop and I went with them to the flower market a few times. Supposedly a huge amount of cut roses are grown nowdays in Ecuador. Who knew?
Another old fashioned flower which is virtually impossible to fine here anymore are the fragrant standard carnations and the spicey smelling "rambling" ones. We had these amazingly fragrant trailing carnations in our yard when we were kids...and I've never seen them since.
