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This is the first thread I ever started so PLEASE respond!
I am hoping to put together some gift "baskets" for friends/family, plus some for selling at Christmas bazaars. They would be grow-your-own hanging basket kits. A kit would consist of a new hanging basket, a bag of potting mix, a bag of seed-starting mix, fertilizer, WS instructions and containers...and seeds.
My question to you experienced winter sowers is, what varieties of flowers would be ideal? (I could include several varieties.) I hope to assure success for the recipient.
The qualifications, I think, would be:
1. Small enough for a HB, or cascading
2. Blooms quickly & flowers all summer (or combo with different bloom times & something always flowering)
3. High percentage of germination
3. Not susceptible to cold damage--i.e. won't germinate and then die with cold snap
Do you think this is a bad idea? I realize the recipients would not have blooms in April when all the beautiful hanging baskets appear at Lowe's and Home Depot...but it might be fun for them to "play" with their gift while it's still winter.
Thank you (please...please respond)
NisiNJ
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