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Seedlings new to our garden

 

Every year I start many of my favorite stand-bys from seed - some to replace those that inevitably bite the dust in our gardens, others for our plant sale. But the most exciting plants to start from seed are those that are new to me!

Through my seed trades and exchanges, I always wind up with lots of new things to try. The list below is a sampling of the species and varieties that will be new to our garden this year. The links lead to brief plant profiles (no pictures yet, obviously), with germination results for each variety.

If the list below looks empty, it's probably because all the current season's seedlings have already found places in the garden, and are therefore no longer 'new'.

 
Agave victoriae-reginae (Queen Victoria agave)
Albuca spiralis (corkscrew albuca)
Albuca suaveolens
Arisaema erubescens
Aristaloe aristata
Babiana tubulosa (baboonflower)
Chamaelirium luteum (blazing star; fairy wand)
Cherleria laricifolia
Crocanthemum carolinianum (Carolina rockrose; Carolina frostweed)
Crocosmia masoniorum (giant montbretia)
Cypella herbertii (goblet flower)
Dahlia merckii
Dasylirion leiophyllum 'Guadalupe' (smooth-leaved sotol, desert candle)
Deuterocohnia longipetala
Dipcadi marlothii
Diplarrena latifolia
Echinocereus rigidissimus ssp. rubispinus (rainbow hedgehog cactus; Sonoran rainbow cactus)
Erythrina flabelliformis (coral bean)
Geissorhiza erosa
Gossypium herbaceum (Levant cotton)
Helichrysum amorginum
Heliophila coronopifolia (blue diamonds; false blue flax)
Hibiscus cameronii (Cameron's hibiscus)
Hormathophylla spinosa (spiny alyssum; madwort)
Hypericum graveolens (mountain St. John's wort)
Oenothera serrulata (shrubby evening primrose; toothed yellow sundrops)
Pavonia missionum (red mallow)
Phaseolus polystachios (thicket bean, wild kidney bean)
Phygelius capensis (Cape fuchsia)
Rhodophiala montana
Scutellaria rupestris (skullcap)
Tephrosia virginiana (goat's rue)
Verbascum pyramidatum
Yucca pallida (pale-leaf yucca)
Zephyranthes brachyandra (rain lily)
Zephyranthes lindleyana (rain lily; zephyr lily)