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Was it here I was advised about Nutsncones on ebay? Well... I bought one clearence pack of flower seeds, one of vegetable seeds and one of wildflower seeds.

This is what I got:
Flowers:
Antirrhinum - Magic Carpet Mixed
Cosmos - Cutesy mix
Geranium - Tornado Pink
Impatiens - Tempo Violet
Nasturtiums - Sunset Pink

Wildflowers:
Wild Angelica
Wild Basil
Bluebell
Dyer's greenweed
Great Burnet
Wild Mignonette x 2
Common Rock Rose
Wild Primrose
Large Thyme

Vegetables:
Aubergine - Miranda
Beetroot - Chioggia Barbietola
Cabbage - Enkhuizen Glory
Carrot - Vita Longa
Chicory - Pan di Zuccero Sugar Loaf
Tomato - Yellow Pear
Sweetcorn - Goldcrest
Radish - Hailstone
Lettuce - Can Can Pills
Onion - Paris Silverskin

All for £7.86 in total, including £1.25 postage. 31.44 PENCE per packet lol

To compensate for my spending splurge I've been given some blue and yellow iris, a pot of Galtonia candicans seedlings and 3 punnets of lavender seedlings, both the latter needing pricking out & potting up.

I’ve just been to a neighbours to feed the chickens & cats while they’re away for the weekend. While walking out I spotted some dry aquilegia heads in the flower bed. So obviously I knocked some seeds into my hand. I wonder what colour they will be.   

It really is that time of year I should be carrying some seed envelopes or containers with me at all times   .

Dog poo bags come in handy for all sorts of things.

I've spotted what looks like creamy white and yellow lupins in between the lanes on the dual carriage way from here to the Humber bridge. It looks fantastic with so many flowerheads. How long after they've flowered do you need to wait for the seeds?
And how likely are they to be true to the parent?

Risking life and limb for lupin seeds sounds like a new sport 'extreme seed collecting'

Probably the traffic is crushing the slugs as they try to cross the road to the lupins!

I had a guided tour of the garden of the local big estate house this afternoon.
I got lots of cuttings. I know the names of some. Research need on so of the others.

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Now all potted up.

Looks like buddleia and flowering currant. Can't see the rest properly.

(29-07-2022, 09:29 PM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]Looks like buddleia and flowering currant. Can't see the rest properly.

 There is white buddleia & flowering currant    . Unfortunately I know those two already     .