There is nothing half so much worth doing as messing about with bulbs. Indoors or outdoors it doesn't matter.
Seeds and Bulbs 2025
Seeds sown and plants bought 2025
Drimia maritima (was Urginea maritima)
Drumstick Alliums
seeds sown 3-5-2025
20-6-2025
19-8-2025 buds
30-8-2025
24-9-2025 lots of flowers opening now - but they're tiny and difficult to see detail
July 2025 disappointing results from seeds (see https://www.gardenwithoutdoors.org.uk/seeds_2024#yellow_asphodel for last year's sowing) and difficulty of buying plants, I bought all asphodel seeds I could find, knowing I probably wouldn't have good results but had to try, sowed 19-7-2025
seeds sown 3-5-2025, also with Amazing Grey poppies
24-6-2025
contained candytuft, cornflowers, california poppies
25-3-2025 sowed 3 seeds per coir pot, 26 pots in total
borage seedlings left, poppies right
10-5-2025
these were doing so well, I had to repot them
a few of the seedlings aren't that big yet so repotting can wait a bit
14-6-2025
I threw the catnip seeds into these 7 pots which have other seedlings and small plants so maybe won't be clear if and when the seeds germinate. They also had catnip plants before which I was hoping would regrow.
23-6-2025 I'm not really sure how these are both so big but both appear to be catnip and have Verbena hastata seedlings invading the pots
These are carried over from last year when I first sowed the seed. They didn't seem to do that well as they were savagely eaten by slugs but after clearing forget-me-nots in the spring, seeing the damage, removing any slugs I could see, they've perked up and seem to be growing well. I'm thinking they should stay in a pot but not sure this one is big enough.I never had them in a pot before. They were very happy in one section of my old garden but the drought and heatwaves in recent years seemed to have killed them off and by the time I moved, I hadn't seen any for 2 or 3 years but it made me keen to try to grow some more.
26-4-2025
10-5-2025
22-5-2025 a few buds appearing
mid-June flowers appearing
6-9-2025 plug plants from Growild Nursery
20-9-2025
Cosmos Cosmic Orange, seeds sown 3-4-2025
Cosmic Orange Cosmos left, Cosmos Seashells right
10-5-2025
12-6-2025
Cosmos Pied Piper Red, seeds sown 3-4-2025
10-5-2025
unlike the other cosmos, the Pied Piper Rd only have a couple of seedlings
12-6-2025
Cosmos Sea Shells, seeds sown 3-4-2025
10-5-2025
12-6-2025
before repotting
after repotting
another view
planted in their final position in this large pot
Crepis Rubra seeds sown 3-4-2025 into 2 trays
18-4-2025
10-5-2025
23-6-2025 seedlings not looking great but decided to repot
seedlings repotted
19-4-2025 seeds sown
seeds sown 3-5-2025
23-6-2025 only seem to have 2 datura seedlings but not sure they're really datura
4-7-2025 bud emerging
17-7-2025
26-7-2025 left plant has seed pod, right plant has a new bud
28-7-2025
15-8-2025
25-8-2025
new bud on one plant
seed pod on the other plant
27-8-2025
28-8-2025
6-9-2025 seed pod splitting open and new bud
7-9-2025
Drimia maritima (was Urginea maritima)
bulbs started 17-10-2024
in January / February the 3rd one had a shoot but it died back
20-9-2025 2nd one has a shoot
after seeing that one come to life, thought I should check the others, this one has a verbascum self-seeding in the pot, was curious which so I've let it grow, the drimia wasn't doing anything anyway
no signs of life from this one but with the drought and heatwave this year, nothing did well, will see if it comes to life next year
Drumstick Alliums bulbs planted 9-10-2025
30-10-2025 shoots, Bloms on the left, Sainsbury's on the right
Echium Blue Bedder seeds sown 3-4-2025
18-4-2025
10-5-2025
23-6-2025 seedlings have not survived well nor have they grown really but repotted
26-4-2025
26-4-2025
26-4-2025
23-5-2025
I actually sowed these last year from collected seeds but some I'm only just seeing seedlings.
13-6-2025
seeds sown 3-5-2025
seeds sown 3-5-2025
3-4-2025 doing very well
26-4-2025
22-5-2025
Amazing Grey poppies sown with Biodiversity Mix
Lauren's Grape in the fibre pots seeds sowed 5-4-2025
Mother of Pearl in the silver tray seeds sowed 5-4-2025
10-5-2025
Mixed Poppies, 3 trays, sowed seeds5-4-2025
10-5-2025 some very very small seedlings
seeds sown 10-4-2025 into a large pot for each tin (33 cm square)
Sainsbury's Blue and White Wildflowers Tin, species listed: cosmos, cornflower morning glory, bishop's flower, baby's breath, viper's bugloss [cosmos? morning glory?]
10-4-2025
18-4-2025
10-5-2025
14-5-2025
22-6-2025
Sainsbury's Pink and White Wildflowers Tin, species listed: cosmos, baby's breath, soapwort, zinnia, mallow
10-4-2025
10-5-2025
14-5-2025
22-6-2025
another view of that pot
closer view of that plant above, think it's a zinnia
Sainsbury's Beneficial Insects Wildflowers Tin, species listed: fennel, purple tansy, viper's bugloss, achillea, alyssum, daisies [viper's bugloss? Blue Bedder?]
10-4-2025
10-5-2025
14-5-2025
22-6-2025
Fothergills Plantable Pellets, what a disappointment, too deep for the seedling to reach the light, all seed packets wasted
seeds sown 11-4-2025, it was a large tray so ended up with 4 seed packets sown in the "plantable pellets" as Fothergills (not Mr Fothergills now) calls them
left to right Lion's Ear (Leontis leonurus), Taraxacum faeroense, Hoary Plantain (Plantago media), Olympian Mullein (Verbascum olympicum)
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