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What's Looking Good in March 2025
- Thread starter Zigs
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Anniekay
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- Quitman, Ga.
Is that a nasturtium seedling?YAY My first little guy of the season. I should name herView attachment 3266
Jersey Devil
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Coleus Only thing I am able to grow from seeds with any success
Anniekay
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- Location
- Quitman, Ga.
No, now I'm telling you, get ya some zinnia seeds of the shorter varieties so you don't have to worry about wind blowing them over or nipping out the tops to keep them shorter. They come up from good sized seed in 5 days and are tough as nails. Flower spring-frost too and butterflies crowd all over them.
These I want for next year. I love the buttery color.
You won't expand your horticultural knowledge unless you try. We learn the most when we fail because then we figure out what we did wrong and can avoid that mistake in future.
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Zigs
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- Location
- Kent, England
Jersey Devil
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I used to grow an assortment of seedlings every year, but the results never seemed to compensate for the "work". I used to hang grow lights all over the place. At night my house used to look like a glowing radioactive site from outside. I get a lot of different stuff but I just don't start them myself from seeds anymore. Just that the nursery we go to is so huge and they have everything under the sun and are so inexpensive, its easier than caring for seedlings of all kinds for two months when I get an abundance of things so cheap. The coleus I grow from my own plants seed from the previous year. I have about 40 coleus plants taking up my whole one planting area, the poinsettia in another and aloe plants in a third. I should have mentioned about the aloe before I
stated that coleus are the easiest to grow. At one time I had about 50 aloe plants growing all over my house. I had to wind up giving them away to neighbors, or freezing the leafs just to manage them. Annie I do like to try to expand my knowledge a little every year, but by buying different plants every year. I just find it more of a "job" to tend to a bunch of seedlings every day for months.
Logan
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- Location
- Redditch west midlands Worcester
First of the daffodils
Zigs
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- Location
- Kent, England
Found these out the front this morning 
Logan
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- Location
- Redditch west midlands Worcester
For a few years now this has been growing in between the patio slabs.
DrCase
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- Location
- NE Arkansas
Are these magnolias? We have a magnolia tree across the street from where I work but they look a little bit different. I love magnolias, though. If the wind is out of the right direction we can smell their scent all the way to our door.
DrCase
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- Location
- NE Arkansas
Yes it is a magnolia I don’t remember the name of it
This was in a garden lady friends back yard
This was in a garden lady friends back yard
Sheal
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- Location
- Ross-shire Scotland
Hellebore
Daphne
Prunus 'Kojo No Mai' just starting to bud.
Daphne
Prunus 'Kojo No Mai' just starting to bud.
Sheal
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- Location
- Ross-shire Scotland
Pieris
Camellia
Berberis 'Darwinii'
Camellia
Berberis 'Darwinii'
Oh, I really like those Daphne flowers. Very pretty blooms on those. I assume some of the buds on the stems will open up as new leaves, or does that variety just not have many leaves?
Sheal
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- Location
- Ross-shire Scotland
It's Daphne 'Mezereum' Mike. The flowers are tiny, in fact they look like berries before they open. It flowers early and is followed by leaves later.
www.rhs.org.uk
The details on the RHS site above suggest planting south, east or west facing but mine is doing pretty well facing north.
Daphne mezereum | mezereon Shrubs/RHS
Find help & information on Daphne mezereum mezereon Shrubs from the RHS
The details on the RHS site above suggest planting south, east or west facing but mine is doing pretty well facing north.
It's Daphne 'Mezereum' Mike. The flowers are tiny, in fact they look like berries before they open. It flowers early and is followed by leaves later.
Daphne mezereum | mezereon Shrubs/RHS
Find help & information on Daphne mezereum mezereon Shrubs from the RHS
The details on the RHS site above suggest planting south, east or west facing but mine is doing pretty well facing north.
Thanks for that. Definitely even more beautiful with the leaves. I looked it up and they'll grow here in Texas, too. Unfortunately, I can't have any while the dogs are alive. Says they're extremely toxic and my dogs eat everything!
Sheal
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- Location
- Ross-shire Scotland
Well that's a shame. You could put a fairly open mesh cage around it. 
