Lucky weejenny. I bought a load of seeds from secret seeds and nowt much hapopened, except for the Verbascum chiaxii alba I ordered, most were not the alba variety but the yellow, which was not as required, but there was also some figwort seeds, that looked very similar to verbascum when I planted them out. I am still trying to eradicate the figwort.
I used to spend loads of money on seeds and compost to grow them in, but it's not neccesarily the seeds quality. i have found that I can not get any compost these days that does not have weed seeds in, or is of very poor quality. I spent over £50 on seeds last autumn and out of all the seeds i have sown since getting the seeds i have had about 5% success. SO I plan to sterilise soil and go down that route.
Get to the garden centres! At those I have visited in the last few weeks the seeds are half price. All the major brands and some of the ethical/heritage too.
I used Seedaholic for a wide range of flower and mixed salad seeds earlier this year. This included huge packets of cosmos and sempervivums. Apart from poor germination with some sunflower seeds I have had excellent results. They provide really useful information especially for the cut flowers.
Have you tried Chiltern Seeds? They have an incerdible range and I've had reasonable germination results growing shrubs and perennials. Once upon a time the catalogue was descriptions (very good descriptions) only, no photo's, but now they are on line and you can see what they are talking about
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Lucky weejenny. I bought a load of seeds from secret seeds and nowt much hapopened, except for the Verbascum chiaxii alba I ordered, most were not the alba variety but the yellow, which was not as required, but there was also some figwort seeds, that looked very similar to verbascum when I planted them out. I am still trying to eradicate the figwort.
I used to spend loads of money on seeds and compost to grow them in, but it's not neccesarily the seeds quality. i have found that I can not get any compost these days that does not have weed seeds in, or is of very poor quality. I spent over £50 on seeds last autumn and out of all the seeds i have sown since getting the seeds i have had about 5% success. SO I plan to sterilise soil and go down that route.
Get to the garden centres! At those I have visited in the last few weeks the seeds are half price. All the major brands and some of the ethical/heritage too.
I used Seedaholic for a wide range of flower and mixed salad seeds earlier this year. This included huge packets of cosmos and sempervivums. Apart from poor germination with some sunflower seeds I have had excellent results. They provide really useful information especially for the cut flowers.
Have you tried Chiltern Seeds? They have an incerdible range and I've had reasonable germination results growing shrubs and perennials. Once upon a time the catalogue was descriptions (very good descriptions) only, no photo's, but now they are on line and you can see what they are talking about
It could even be incredible!
Used them for years ...Brilliant !