Cut and Come Again Zinnia Seeds - For Sowing Indoors - January 2024
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I've said it before: I'm a foliage gardener. I'm most comfortable talking about, working on, planting foliage plants. I'm also a shade gardener, so that's (kinda) why I'm a foliage gardener. Last Fall, I began to address a significant garden deficit: conifers . Via CSCF. Conifers Should Come First . Those conifers came in a flurry in the late Fall. But, so too, did something else: flowers. I planted some new (to me) perennial flowers: Midnight Masquerade Pentsemon , a Pow Wow Wildberry Echinacea and some May Night Salvias - all in the IB2DWs extended bed. I also tucked in a pair of Stachys monieri Hummelos (Betony) on the other side of the driveway that has upright, purple flowers. In my 2023 recap post , I included a mixed list of lessons learned/things to think about going forward and included on that list: plant more flowers. Get out of my comfort zone and think about adding flowers to a com...