Prairie Moon Nursery in Minnasota sells seed packets of Geum triflorum.You get 100 seeds for $2.00.They have a huge selection of natives.Everwilde Seeds also sells them.

Super! We have 'Oldie' Number Two. Melinda sent you an email. :) This offer is now closed. Keep watch we'll do it again soon! Paradisa

We are getting it now and have already shovelled once, help came along which was nice, then it has started again and falling steadily, kind of quiet and pretty out there if it weren't for all the other. Am I fighting addiction, no no no. I'm fighting covetousness. Somebody posts a picture of a plant, and I just gotta have it. Or I see it on a website. Or another forum. Or a catalog. Or a botanical garden (their bougainvillea and a couple other things come to mind). Maybe it's ok, that commandment, can't remember which one says do not covet thy neighbor's house (have been guilty of that but not my neighbor's, a particular one that overlooks the river, just that one, not all of them, so I have an out), thy neighbor's wife (no, not an issue, well husband, let's not go there), thy neighbor's goods (oops, guilty of that and 'twould include plants). But wait. You people aren't my neighbors much as I might wish it otherwise. But I posted over on perennials on another thread a dwarf Asiatic lily, Crimson Pixie, almost a neighbor has one. Does down the block and across the street count? No, why lie to myself and the world. I've gone overboard on plants and seeds, no question. Then starts the rationalizing, but, but, maybe. I wonder if that company has any other seeds I might want, most of it is wildflowers. Anybody know of something else there? They don't have that gorgeous Sanguisorba menzii I saw paired with Patty's Plum Poppy over on the perennials forum, just a white one.

laagarden - I have no experience with asters but balloon flower (platycodon grandiflorus) and coreopsis 'Early Sunrise' bloom the first year from seed. I grew both this year and last and both bloomed their first season. I start the seed indoors early. The balloon flower I harvested seed from my own mature plant. The coreopsis 'Early Sunrise' is a bright yellow double flowered variety I grew from seed I bought at a discount store. It produces flowers continuously right up into early November here in Z6. BTW, this will be my first year winter sowing too. Good luck!! For information on which perennials bloom the first year from seed, you could check out Dianes Flower Seeds' website. Not only is hers a Top 30 site on Dave's Garden, her plant descriptions say if the plant will bloom the first year. I ordered baptisia australis, digitalis, balloon flower, and meadow rue from her this year among others and had nearly 100% germination just growing them in starting mix in front of my south-facing window. (Note: Only the balloon flower of these bloomed this year.) She provides detailed planting instructions plus any stratification requirements. Whenever I've had a question, she's always answered in a timely manner.