Annuals: Show your favorite annual that is really "taking off" now!!, 0 by DaleTheGardener

DaleTheGardener wrote:
Karen,

My nursery is tiny (6,000 sq ft). Some of those trade packs have a thousand seeds in them. Most of the plants I grow from seed I will only grow 200-300 hundred per year.

Many plants can be grown from cuttings, coleus, purslane, impatiens, begonia etc. Some I grow from bulbs - lily, caladiums & others.

I do have to buy some tiny plants (liners) they come in trays that measure 11 x 18 and have 288 to 512 plants. I grow delphiniums in the winter, they germinate at 45-50, it never gets cold enough (here) to start them, the same for pansy.

I have a few hundred plants in large pots, called stock plants, that I take cuttings from.

I don't buy many seeds. I do have a huge collection of stock coleus, they are popular here>