July 13, 2008
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Starters vs Seeds
Here's a little garden lesson in how sometimes
things don't turn out the way you expect them to!
Portulaca is one of my favorites, easy to grow & maintain.
This year I bought some in starter pots and some seeds
& planted them the same day.
Here is the comparison:
From starter pot
From Seed
The blooms on the plants from seeds are the size of half dollars compared to the quarter sized blooms of the starter pot plants! Next year I will be growing these strictly from seed!
Silversun Pickups-Three Seed
Comments (17)
Beautiful images, I love flowers and I guess as every seed need LOVE from the start and you can't be sure of the love gived to them before you get them, maybe your love is the difference. Congratulations.
Mine would look the same regardless. dead.
Oh wow! That is a huge difference!
*sparkle
I love portulaca too . . . can't believe the difference! Think maybe I will do the same next year. Lovely photos, again. : )
Very interesting comparison--especially since you did both in the same year! I generally like to do seeds for zinnias, cosmos and sunflowers (didn't do any this year unfortunately because the surgery situation--they do need a little bit of tender care in the first three weeks to make sure they are watered and thinned out) and have had extremely good results from year to year. I used to do a lot of tropicals, but it seems like they're great in the Spring until it hails and then they look shredded and crappy the rest of the summer. Too expensive to replace in the same season, so it's really the luck of the draw. I love geraniums for how they can take a battering and come back into perfect flowers well into the fall.
ps. and I love how the birds flock in the fall to eat the seeds of my zinnias, cosmos and sunflowers. That in itself is a beautiful thing as the garden fades!
Flowers, flowers, how much I love you. But I love them more when they are dead.I think, the one with seed is looking great. Next year, better growthem from seeds, yes.
That last picture is exceptionally beautiful.
Wow - I might be trying some stuff from seed next year too. You live and learn huh?
good job with the seeds i do not have that this year as usual yours is beautiful i have an old crock with holes on the sides where i usually mix it with hens & chickens i like the variety called "ice " it appears as bursts very nice photos i planted a bit today i am still piecing mine together blessings beck
i'm always afraid of seed.
do you know anything about hydroponics?
I really like this kind of moss .. I have it in three pots on my porch, and they bloom all summer long.
even so, they are all really pretty.
Sometimes growing from seed rocks, and sometimes, not so much depending on what you are growing. You are dead on with those flowers though. What a difference!
Aren't those portulacsa tiny seeds? And Impatiens are smaller yet!
So weird. Why would the starter plants be so puny compared to the ones from seed? Is it too late for me to grow some portaluca? They really are pretty. I've been doing a lot of neighborhood walking lately, and it has inspired me to fix up my yard. I'm going to do some before, during, and after pics.
No matter how many times I see those plants, I love them.
x.g.
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