Pacific Northwest Gardening: Favorite Annuals?, 0 by kosk0025

kosk0025 wrote:
Those are some great ones! I agree, I'd rather start everything indoors, even my poppies. I don't trust what will happen outside with the direct sowing---too chancy. I'm going to venture into begonias next year, I think.

Coleus---I agree---can't get enough of that. And very easy to start from seed indoors. I did a pot last year with just different coleus. You can see it in the pic---that is how it looked at pumpkin harvest time, so I guess October-ish is when the pic was taken. It seemed like overnight last year that they went from being average size in the pot, to just kaboom---coleus power. I didn't fertilize or anything. Just average potting soil. Those were an Ed Hume seed packet "Rainbow Mix" of coleus. Repeating that this year.

I've got rudbeckia 'prairie sun' and rudbeckia 'cherry brandy' (I think I've seen you mention you have that one started too in the coneflowers forum). Are you finding them to be extremely slow growing??? I started mine around Feb 1. Individual leaves are only about 2 cm so far, and have just kind of stopped there it seems. Prairie sun is definitely a tender perennial----I have a hard time getting those to come back for me.