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Name: Caroline Scott Calgary (Zone 4a)            CarolineScott Feb 22, 2014 7:07 AM CST |
| From the "Seeds" forum Echinacea would be a first year flowering perennial from seeds. Which other perennial plants can we grow from seed and have flowers the first year? Campanula carpatica? |
Name: Rick R. Minneapolis, MN, USA zone 4          Leftwood Feb 22, 2014 8:03 AM CST |
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Name: Reid North Branch, MN (Zone 4b)   Anderwood Feb 22, 2014 3:23 PM CST |
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Name: Reid North Branch, MN (Zone 4b) Anderwood Feb 25, 2014 4:13 PM CST |
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Name: woofie NE WA (Zone 5a)         woofie Mar 30, 2014 12:37 PM CST |
| I've had delphiniums flower the first year. Confidence is that feeling you have right before you do something really stupid. |
Name: Caroline Scott Calgary (Zone 4a) CarolineScott Mar 30, 2014 7:58 PM CST |
| Good---by next season I will have a good list of first year flowering perennials. |
Name: woofie NE WA (Zone 5a) woofie Mar 30, 2014 8:47 PM CST |
| Oh, and Oriental poppies! Confidence is that feeling you have right before you do something really stupid. |
Name: Caroline Scott Calgary (Zone 4a) CarolineScott Mar 31, 2014 2:52 AM CST |
| Do orientale poppies flower the first year for you? I have not seen that? When do you start them to get flowers the first year? You are a little warmer than here. |
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b I'm always on my way out the door..         chelle Mar 31, 2014 6:47 AM CST |
Here are a few that I trialed last year. The ones marked with an asterisk have assuredly survived the horrible winter we just had; the rest aren't showing obvious signs yet, but it's still very early.  Penstemon (Penstemon x mexicali 'Carillo Purple')* Carpathian Bellflower (Campanula carpatica)* Hedgerow Cranesbill (Geranium pyrenaicum 'Bill Wallis')* Current-leaf globe-mallow (Sphaeralcea grossulariifolia)* Cottage Pink (Dianthus plumarius 'Velvet 'n' Lace') Maltese Cross (Silene chalcedonica 'Dusky Salmon')* Blackfoot Daisy (Melampodium leucanthum) Hyssop (Agastache aurantiaca 'Sunset Yellow') Seed Box (Ludwigia alternifolia) Alpine Catchfly (Silene suecica) |
Name: Caroline Scott Calgary (Zone 4a) CarolineScott Mar 31, 2014 6:51 AM CST |
| Thanks! Chelle! |
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b I'm always on my way out the door.. chelle Mar 31, 2014 6:54 AM CST |
 Oops, sorry Caroline, for some reason I thought we were in similar zones. Most of these are listed as hardy to about zone 5. I guess you could still check them out though. |
Name: Caroline Scott Calgary (Zone 4a) CarolineScott Mar 31, 2014 6:56 AM CST |
| Yes I would check for zone differences. But sometimes a plant will surprise us and be more hardy than what we think. |
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b I'm always on my way out the door.. chelle Mar 31, 2014 7:00 AM CST |
I'm finding that to be true, too; especially with the more natural type plants.  |
Name: woofie NE WA (Zone 5a) woofie Mar 31, 2014 9:06 AM CST |
| I have tiny starts of my oriental poppies in the greenhouse now. And I think this is about the same time I planted the first ones, a couple of years ago. Those (Princess Victoria Louise) definitely bloomed the first year. Not a whole lot of flowers because they were still a bit small. Lots of flowers last year, tho, which is why I'm starting a couple more varieties, Royal Wedding and Queen Alexandra. Confidence is that feeling you have right before you do something really stupid. |
Name: Caroline Scott Calgary (Zone 4a) CarolineScott Mar 31, 2014 4:29 PM CST |
| I have the oriental poppy : papaver bracteatum, a big red one, sown as a winter sow. But I don't expect flowers until next year. |
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