WELCOME to my webpages about seeds - collecting seeds, storing seeds, sowing seeds, germinating seeds and exchanging seeds, with pictures of seeds, seedpods and seedlings.
If you're looking for pictures of seeds, there are life-size photos of 700 seeds here, arranged roughly in order of size. There are photos of nearly 700 seedlings, and germination information for around 1500 species. The Botany Section covers hundreds of botanical and gardening terms, with charts and photos to make everything clear. Whether you're a gardener, a student, or a teacher, I hope you can find something useful here.
(If you're a teacher, this page has links to some topics that might be useful for the National Curriculum Key Stages in Science.)
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If you want to collect your own seeds, but aren't sure what the seedpod looks like, or if you have seeds without a name, hopefully this section will help you identify them. Life-size pictures of 700 seeds in order of size and shape, and a Database with photos and descriptions of the seedpods.
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A light-hearted look at seed collecting, which will tell you all you need to collect, dry and store seeds from the plants in your garden. Also includes answers to some Frequently Asked Questions to help ensure your seeds are ripe, healthy and viable, and seed envelope templates, including some with flower outlines for children to colour in.
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General information about how, when and where to sow seeds by several different methods. Explains the reasons you might want to use winter sowing, and suggests plants you can start this way. Information on stratification, scarification, and answers to more FAQs.
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A Seed Germination Database - A table showing the results of sowing almost 2000 batches of seeds of around 1500 species, by several different methods, at different times of the year.
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Photos of nearly 700 seedlings with their Latin names, or sorted according to the shape of the first true leaves, with their Latin and common names, to make it easier to identify the plants that come up in your garden, or to show you what should come up from the seeds you sow. Includes some FAQs about seedlings.
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100 pages with photos and descriptions of 50 favourite annuals and 50 favourite perennial plants to grow from seed. Includes their botanical classification, and the photographs of seedpod, seeds and seedlings from the other sections, together with germination hints. |
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All the plants covered in these pages, listed by botanical name or common name, linked to the relevant page so you can go straight to the information you want. Also has a Search Box, in case you can't! Or use the common names index to check the botanical names of your plants.
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Some technical bits - gardening and botanical terms, parts of a flower, development of a seed, meaning of Latin names, botanical names for common plants, Plant Families, pests, weeds, temperature zones and more, with explanatory photos, charts and diagrams.
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I hope you find these pages helpful. Once again, here are all the sections on the site:
I'd like to think everything on these pages is right, but I'm only a gardener, and have no botanical qualifications or experience.
If you find any errors, please let me know.
If you can't see what you're looking for listed above, you can search the site here:
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Revised: May 2008