Today, I started a whole bunch of seeds. In fact, I’ll have too many if they all germinate. I have them ziploc baggies between moist paper towels, some on a heating pad, others not, depending on their germination needs. Here are the varieties I am working with this year:

• Geranium ‘Orbit Apple Blossom’ (a kind of annual geranium or pelargonium) — from Park Seed
• Verbena x hybrida ‘Imagination’ — from a trade with a guy in NY from GardenWeb
• Dianthus deltoides ‘Brilliancy’ — from a trade
• Eschscholtzia californica ‘Summer Sorbet’ (pink California poppies) — picked from my flowers last year in a spot away from all the orange ones.
• Thymus serpyllum — from a trade
• Hibiscus moscheutos ‘Blue River II’ — a large white flowered herbaceous hibiscus — from a trade
• Delosperma cooperi — a cold-hardy iceplant — from a trade
• Erigeron glaucus ‘Elstead Pink’ (a hardier Erigeron than the one I grew in California) — from a trade
• Lavatera tauricensis — from my garden
• Rudbeckia hirta — black-eyed Susan — from my garden
• Penstemon — a kind I collected seeds from up in the mountains — not sure what variety; it looks different than the Rocky Mountain Penstemons I have in my garden

I hope I can handle all this stuff! I think I have room under my lights for 260 seedlings if I use Jiffy pellets or small cell packs.