It is in July 2010 now, and I harvested some seeds from pink Gerbera Daisies which are living outdoors in the garden during warmer days and indoors in pots during winter for 3 years. They're known as annual, but when you keep them warm enough they grow like perennial and the flowers keep coming back! When they were transplanted outdoors they were popular among bumble bees and so I could get them pollinated and harvest seeds! I found that not all the seeds from one head of flowers are ripe. Let the head dry on the stalk and become fluffy like that of dandelion puff-ball (not that fluffy though) and search for a bit stouter seeds around the petals. Ripe seeds are rare (maybe around 50th or 100th of total?) but are definitely there if pollinated. And maybe this is why flower shops keep telling us that growing daisy from seeds is near impossible and we'd better get flowers or whole plant from the shop. Germination is really easy. I succeeded in germinating them in a pot filled with quality potting mix, kept moist by spraying water every day, placed by a sunny window, with room temperature around 70-74 F, within a week. Hope there are more people who succeed in growing Gerbera Daisies from seeds! - Ryu

Here are a couple of pictures taken along the way. These were sown on 2-26-12. ''> This was taken on March 31st. The photo below was taken on April 20th. "> Ready to transplant plug into a 3" pot on 4-20-12. "> The plants are very slow to grow. Finally seeing some good growth on them after the leaves have gotten a little larger. I first thought I had sowed these too late, but now watching them take off, I would once again sow around the end of Feb. The variety of Gerbera is Mega Revolution purchased from Geoseed.

Hi folks, I don't mean to be rude, but when a posting indicates that seeds are for trading (not sase), please respect that persons wishes and do not email them privately asking for the seeds for sase. I have received numerous emails from people asking for these seeds for sase when I deliberately stated they are for trading. I don't know about others, but I will post a public note later in the year if I have seeds available for sase. I suspect many of the newbies on this site are not aware of the gardenweb rules. This type of solicitation for free seeds can make many people uncomfortable. Thanks for listening.

~lurking~ Would this be for seeds or plants? I have terrible luck with bare root plants. I've killed everyone I've ever gotten! I wouldn't have much to trade as far as plants. I just started Gloriosa daisies, Gaillardia, Coreopsis & English Daisies this year. I only have established NOID black-eyed Susans and Purple Coneflowers. I've been working a little more on my perennials this year. I too love daisy type flowers. Don't mind my ramble! Becky