Annuals: Annual Choice Trend, 4 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Well--yes! It does take patience--but it is mundane work...so watching TV and
removing seeds compliment each other....

"Greenthumb" (on our Mid Atlantic Forum) said that cardinal flowers are tender perennials.
I am in z-7a. You are 5a--and it came back? WOW!!
I am sure the Cardinal Flowere is a biennial--so they would not bloom the same year from seed.

The hardest seeds I have ever removed are---
1--S. African Foxglove--next to impossible...
2--Basil seeds--I dig them out with a toothpick.
3--Purple Coneflower (Echinacea) seeds. They are deep underneath those spikes. Big too!
They will stick you like needles when dry.

Pi. #1 and #5 are of S.African Foxglove