Some quite small and some at small 4"pot stage. I was given a lot of seed, most of it being around 10 years old and I didn't count on 100 % germination.....and then some of it was from my own fresh seed of the year before ...do not know why when I have seed, I can't just sow a 'few'...no, I seem to have to sow them all...lol..I will have to control this. I sowed seed from my echium gentianoides "Tajinaste', I had one plant left in SoCal, but brought seed from it with me. I don't know how it will do in the winter here, I suspect waterlogging will be a problem, so as I've been digging out lots of sod, I'd built up quite a mound of it over to the side of the property and one day looked at it and decided that might be the spot to plant some things that would want really good drainage, so I've got a bunch of the e. "Tajinaste" planted there and e. wildpretii also and will also add a couple of the dwarf echium, e. vulgaris. I sowed a lot of lobelia tupa and have small plants of that going out there. The small salvias that went into the ground...already got a few seeds from the s. rhinosa, so if it doesn't make it through winter in that spot, I can start again...the s. atrocyanea has one flower on it, the s. azurea is in bud, have collected a few seed from the agastache "Tutti Frutti" and a. "Sunset". I'm so used to being able to sow and plant year round that I'm having a hard time waiting to wintersow...I have to look around this area to see what makes it here and it's really not a large gardening community to get ideas from. I see that echium pininina will grow well here, but I've only seen one echium fastuosum and it's just coming into flower so I want to watch it and see if it gets 'frosted', I've not seen any e. wildpretii. I have one lartge e. simplex that I was hoping would flower this year and get seed from before Winter, but no luck yet. Small seedlings of linaria purpurea took off really well as soon as they went into the ground, a few small seedlings of monarda and other too small to put into the ground right now will be held over...small plants of verbascum blattaria and v. chaixii album, a few went into the ground and a few held over, etc...
Just a new environment, don't know quite what to expect...when we moved in last October, I'd brought my box trailer filled with mostly large plants and we were so drained from the whole move, that I just shoved them all under the overhang of large bushes on the edge of the property and hoped for the best.....surprisingly I see now that a year later, my "Lady of the Night" is finally re-growing and that was unexpected....my "Mexican Weeping Bamboo" in a 15 gallon pot did not make it...I love that but won't try growing it here now that I see how it fared, or rather didn't....it's actually a mild climate here, but wet and 'different'.
