Okay, here's my list, minus whatever bunch I didn't feel like checking today Perennials: English Wallflower Lupine "Sundown" Ornamental Grass "Coolio" Snow-In-Summer Cantebury Bells Or-Grass "Pony Tails" Alyssum "Gold Dust" Pansy "Giant Blue" Basket Flower-Armenian Coneflower "White Swan" Coreopsis "Mahogany Midget" Cupid's Dart Dames Rocket Evening Primrose (Pink) Flax Blue Liatris (from SIL yard) Lupine "Band of Nobles" Lupine "Minarette Mix" Monarda Clinopodia Blanket Flower Butterfly Bush Mix Coneflower Purple Coneflower Tennessee Lady's Mantle Penstemon "Husker Red" Rudbeckia filagura sulivani Jupiter's Beard Aster- Trimix Alpine Rue Annuals: Carnation "Dwarf Fragrance" Carnation Enfant de Nice Blend Cosmos "Daydream" Dianthus Dble Pinks Larkspur "Galilee Carmine dble" Plox Bachelor Buttons "Blue Boy" Bachelor Buttons "Snowball" OrGrass-Black Durum Snapdragon-Tall Maximum Aster "Crego" Aster "Fireworks Mixed" Blue Thimble Flower Calendula "Lashima" Candy Tuft "Dwarf Fairy" Cosmos "Dble Click" Larkspur "Giant Imperial" Maltese Cross Stocks "Giant Imperial" Strawflower "Tall Choice Dble" Bachelor Buttons "Red Boy" Zinnias-PP Purple Zinnias-Royal Purple Snapdragon-Magic Carpet Sunflower-Pastiche Sunflower-Red Sun Sunflower-Velvet Queen Zinnias- Dasher mix Zinnias-State Fair Zinnias-Thumbelina Mix Bells of Ireland California Poppy "Mexicana Sunshades" California Poppy "Thai Silk" mix Candytuft mixed colors Cosmos "Campus Yellow" Dusty Miller Petunia "Fire Chief" Poppy- Purple Peony Sunflower- Claret Sunflower-Moulin Rouge Zinnias- Red Sun Amaranthus- Tricolor Cosmos "Ladybird Mix" Poppy Breadseed Lavender Zinnias-Anniversary Zinnias-Park's Picks Lilac Zinnias-PP Carmine Rose Zinnias-Violet Queen Alyssum "Oriental Nights" sowed 2 packets Alyssum "Rosie O'Day" Snapdragon- Labella Snapdragon- Madame Butterfly Snapdragon- Royal Bride Dahlia-Decorative Giants Mix Amaranth- my favorite burgundy Painted Tongue "Casino Black" Petunia- Dble Cascade Burgundy Snapdragon-Chimes Bronze Snapdragon-Ribbon Purple Statice "Mixed Bold Colors" Tasselflower Veggies: Lettuce- Mesclun Mix Lettuce- Simpson Black seeded Radish "Champion" Spinach-Bloomsdale Long Standing Pak Choi Carrot "Nantes Coreless" Radish "China Rose" Carrot "Long Imperator #58" Feverfew Winter Savory Basil- Lettuce Leaf And I have two containers from last year that are sprouting! Yippeeeeeeeeee!: Highbush Cranberry/Viburnum Trilobum Aubretia "Rock Cress" I'm pretty excited about the Cranberry. There are at least four seeds germinated, and there are several more in there waiting.

According to my above post, I got some sprouts in late March to early April. (Petunia Cascade Pink Orchid sprouts). They are growing beautifully. I am planning to plant them out this week. (5 plants total). I put them in their own individual cells a while back when they were quite small, and I think this helped them come along more quickly. I was beginning to think I had baked the rest of the petunia seeds since I planted a whole pack, and only 6 came up. But just today I noticed a new tiny sprout ... like maybe there's a second wave of sprouts on the way. I'm a zone ahead of several of you, so I wouldn't give up just yet. Just this week I've had several sprouts in containers that I had almost given up on. It's been warm here for a while, so I would have figured most things would be up by now.

Hello Amanda, I wish I had seen your message thread sooner, but I haven't been participating in the Garden Clinic forum because I am not expert at that, I haven't been participating in the House Plants because I don't grow any actual House Plants, and I haven't been participating in the Growing from Seed forum because what I grow from seed is mostly my home-hybridized zinnias. I do continue my zinnia hobby into the Winter months by growing zinnias indoors under lights. Cross pollinating zinnias indoors is actually easier than outdoors. I did have Aster Yellows appear on an outdoor zinnia. It was quite weird, in that new plants seemed to be arising from the middle of the main bloom on my zinnia. At first I thought that its seeds were somehow germinating while green and still in the zinnia head. A Google search turned up similar photos as Aster Yellow, so I disposed of the plant in our trash almost like medical waste. You have shown some rather good pictures of small insects on your zinnias. I have had some pest problems in my indoor zinnias, but I wouldn't consider myself as "expert" with zinnia pests, indoors or out. But I have dealt with spider mites (they are the Borg), thrips, and aphids on my indoor zinnias. I did have problems with thrips and aphids in other years. I am pretty sure your zinnia pests are not spider mites, because they make obvious cobweb-looking webs, and crawl about on them in large numbers. And your photos are clearly not of aphids. That sort of leaves Thrips, but your photos don't look like the Thrips I have dealt with. I am not sure what your little guys are. Your photos show a single insect in each case. To do any significant damage, you would think they would need to appear in large numbers. It is not obvious that the insects in your photos are doing any significant actual damage. There may be another cause for your obvious plant damage. But you have reported that they are present in large numbers, so for the time being I will assume that those little guys are the problem. Changing the subject a little, as an amateur zinnia breeder, I am interested in your College of the Ozarks experience and the complimentary zinnia seeds they sent you. Your zinnias seem to differ from any of the commercial zinnia strains I am familiar with. Commercial seeds are heat treated to kill any disease (while not killing the seed by careful control of the heat process). The College of the Ozarks may not have that kind of specialized equipment to treat their seeds. I assume that all of the zinnia seeds I save are infected (even though the plants may look just fine) and I have my own chemical processes for disinfecting my saved zinnia seed. Some of the zinnia damage you have photographed may have been a disease or possibly even chemical damage. That chlorine-smelling water is a bit worrisome. Has it also been fluoridated? As far as I know, fluoridation does not have a smell. We live in a rural area and rent a farmhouse with its own water well. So, no chlorine or fluorine, but a rural well can have its own problems. I have been going for new zinnia flower forms in my amateur breeding hobby. This is an example. Click on the pic to see the larger version. If your problem is small insects, I am thinking that a good commercial systemic insecticide will be a solution. Something that you could apply to the soil rather than as a spray. I use a product like All In One Rose and Flower Carefrom Bayer Advanced, or a spray-on version of it. ZM (not associated with any product or vendor mentioned or linked)

Ken, Thank you for your reply. Yes, it looks like there are a couple of very tiny buds coming up. The plant is alive and well but the cutting is very small because I took it from a plant bought I recently bought at the nursery, which itself was not that big. I only bought a couple, each of one color, to save money. They already are in the real sunshine, I had rooted them for about 10 days indoors, then when I saw they had developed roots, I acclimated them for a few days outside and then planted them in outdoor pots, small like this. I figured outside they will have a better chance to take off, especially now in the spring, when the sun is not quite oppressive as in the summer. Yes, I started with new media - Pro-mIx soil, that's the expensive kind, so they'd better be grateful. It is true that the cuttings I carried over winter from plants I had last fall are larger now - soon to bloom. I only did a small trial and lost a few because I had them in very small cups and I kept forgetting to water, so now I only have three of these. They look like this: As opposed to the significantly smaller cutting from a plant I recently bought at the nursery: So it's probably worth the trouble to start from fall and make room for them under lights indoors for a few months. However, my very best petunia right now, already ahead of the game blooming ts head off, is one I allowed to behave as a perennial. Then again, this is the South. I had it in an outdoor/ over-the-rail container last fall and I let it sit there with pansies to spend the winter outside. When temperatures dropped around freezing a few times, I brought the container inside until the cold front went away. This spring, she came back to life like nothing else and these pictures are far from doing justice to the gorgeous color. It is a much more vibrant and luscious color, like a rich raspberry red, not the maroon that shows up in this photo. Petunias in the right colors can be spectacular. Now I want to propagate these and I wonder how long overall until I will see them blooming. They seem to root in no longer than 2 weeks - but then the question is growth and bloom time, as I need to plan for other containers.