Arlene, your market flowers are AMAZING!!! Wow, I would love to visit your booth. What month are those arrangements? Our night time temps here all summer long are in the 50's (with normal daytime temps, but high temps don't arrive until around 4 pm), so we don't get zinnias, etc blooming until mid-late August. So those would be Aug-Sept-October arrangements here, with our first frost coming usually around mid-October. Thank you for sharing those beautiful photos. The two toned green/pink buddleia is particularly stunning. Do you know what variety it is?
At your market do you include the vases/jars also for an added cost?
In my arrangement, the white flower is a lisianthus and the dark pink is a David Austin rose. Yes, light pink are a pink globe dahlia---short height plant, so front of border plant, but each tuber makes loads of flowers. We are lucky here, and do not have to dig up our dahlias, and they return most of the time.
The kiss me over the garden gate seeds need a period of cold: next year, seed them in your trays--probably in Jan or Feb for you. Put them outside and let the rain/frost fall on them. Ignore them x 3 weeks. Then bring them into the greenhouse with or without heat mat. They should germinate for you after about a 1-2 wks.
Craspedia (billy buttons, wildflower in Australia)---funny story---3 years ago, I only had 10 seeds. Got 2 vigorous plants. Last year ordered a big seed packet from Johnny's b/c I loved them so much---for some reason, none germinated so I assumed the seeds weren't good. (But luckily 1 of the 2 plants from the previous year had survived the winter, so I still had some flowers). This year---using the same Johnny's packet---I decided to start the rest of them (about 75 seeds), assuming none would take again. The seed gods decided to let about 3/4 germinate, and now I have perhaps as many as 50 vigorous plants. Not sure where I'll put them all. I should try and ship you some when they are bigger. I haven't done that before, but I could give it a try if you'd like? I could also pot up some kiss me seedlings now from outside, and get them growing in some containers for you to be shipped at the same time.
