SEEDS, SEEDS, SEEDS - October 2025
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I've been in seed overload the last couple of weeks. Buying varieties I want to grow next year (in bulk so I can offer to you too), harvesting seeds from the garden, drying, winnowing, and germination testing to ensure you have a successful growing experience.
Filler flowers - Some of these varieties are new to me, and I'm excited to grow them:
• Popsocks Cosmos - I LOVE these - it's like an anemone Cosmo with the tufted center. I can't wait to grow them.
• Clarkia Elegance - These look amazing and are cut and come again flowers! They come in salmon, red and purple.
• Basil - I used basil in my bouquets last year and loved it. I tried 5 different kinds and picked the 2 I preferred to keep growing: Mrs. Burns Lemon and Purple Ruffles.
• Zinnias - I have a whole bunch of new zinnias in the shop, some only have 4 packets available - as I got these seeds to try out. Super excited about Zinderella series - I may try my hand at hybridizing these (peach and lilac).
• Statice - I've grown the QIS blue for a couple of years now, it works great as support in bouquets. I've added apricot (I could never quite get enough of this color planted from the mixes) and the pastel shades mix with the pinks, purples, white.
• Flax - Floret calls the sky blue flax "bubblegrass" that's because after the flower are gone the seed pods cover the stems like bubbles and can still be used as filler for flower bouquets. This is a perennial too! The scarlet flax is an annual. Both bloom May-June/July.
• Amaranthus - I've been growing red spike for years, it looks great with sunflowers and other moody bouquets. I've added hot biscuits too - a warm golden color.
• Sunflowers - of course sunflowers, I've been honing the varieties I offer to my favorites. Procut - for consistency (these are on SALE), and branching sunflowers - plant less and get more flowers!
This Saturday October 25th 9am PDT:
Zinnia Solo seeds- I hand-picked these unique zinnia blooms to save seeds from and offer to you. These are for the experimental part of your garden. These are not a mix.
Tomato seeds - The germination testing is coming along nicely, a few stragglers left to pop up, but most are 90% - 100%!
Two exclusives: Tupelo Honey and Bloodstone. Both standouts in the garden and taste tests this year!
Also, Rebel Starfighter varieties, and Marzano Fire (best paste tomato). Oxhearts including Midnight Sun and Purple Heart.
Finally - coming later this fall: Dahlia Solos - dahlia seeds from a named parent bloom. This is so you to have better luck growing your own personal dahlia that you want to keep. My cutting garden is 100% doubles with many unicorn varieties. These are the same seeds that I grow for seedlings.
Over the next couple of months, I'm harvesting and drying the seeds, and they should be ready in time for Christmas. Named varieties include: Bloomquist Jean, Bloomquist Blush, Bloomquist Mojo, Bloomquist Alan, Bloomquist York, Bloomquist Tori P, Verrone's Sandra J, River's Bubble Gum, River's Cherry Bomb, Robanne Butterscotch, Lee's Unicorn Eye, RM Whirligig, and many more… I'm still harvesting :-)