I grew the Kilimanjaro White last year. I’ve never been a marigold fan, but these won me over. All seeds germinated and the flowers were lovely and quite hardy. I grew them in my vegetable garden to help draw pollinators and fight pests. Will grow again this year!
Not a fan of Marigolds either and I only get them for my tomatoes if I’m planting them however I got 2-varieties this year to fill some sunny gaps along a very long border that becomes a weedy mess and I’m sick of “fixing” it each year with the “pulling weeds then mulch it” routine.
Just found your video and I immediately subscribed I have purchased from Baker creek for years I have a cut flower for you to try from them …Dara it’s a type of Queen Anne’s lace The flowers are so dainty and flat Purple fading to white They last a long time in the vase and add SO much! I also dry the blooms flat and use them in fall arrangements
I'm trying the " apricotta cosmos" for the first time. Really looking forward to the peachy pink color. The mahogany nasturtiums got me by the picture also!
I have grown Candy Stripe zinnias from Baker Creek the two last summers. The flowers are pink/white, red/white and orange/yellow. The orange/yellow flowers were outstanding and I wish I had saved seeds from them. Also grew a lemony yellow pear-shaped cherry tomato (don't remember the name) - so prolific and the fruit didn't crack.
I had to get that Baker's Creek Rare Seed catalog. Very beautiful & worth it! Loving the studio. I didn't know that about the new seeds on the website. I just learned that Baker Creek is in my home state so I will be doing a tour and filming it sometime next year. Looking forward to that. Thanks for sharing.
I love Baker Creek. I love how they share the stories of theor heirlooms. I love hearing about how a variety was rediscovered after many years, or how "so & so" brought it from this country, etc.
I love Baker Creek, too! I also picked up the Queeny Lemon Peach zinnia because I need more yellow in my garden. Last year was my first year growing zinnia from seed, and it was the most satisfying experience. Queen Lime Red is my favorite so far. You reminded me that I want to pick up some of the larger flowering marigolds, so thank you for that! I have french marigolds in my garden that reseed freely (but not annoyingly). They are beautiful, but the blooms are only about an inch wide.
I just received my order from baker creek as well. I ordered several heirloom tomatoes and peppers this year. My freebie was spoon tomatoes. Its a rather interesting tomato. They grow like cherry tomatoes but are only the size of a pea... So its more ornamental than an edible. I plan on planting a couple just to see. This is my second year ordering from them.
I am in zone 9A but I plant only what I can eat . I do plant some bee loving plants to help pollination. I have purchased from baker creek before and Hoss tools is awesome
I am so happy to have found your channel! I am in Mississippi zone 8a too! It will be so helpful to find another gardener in my zone to follow along with! Yeah! Also we bought like all the same seeds from Bakers! Those orange hat tomatoes weee too cute to pass up! 😊
I was super excited to get the big Baker Creek catalog this year. The free one was a lot smaller this year than in the past, and I know several people who print materials have mentioned the increased cost of printing this year- especially the full color pages like they do. I got the same ageratum mix this year as well. I have the queen blush and queen orange zinnias which I love. I like to mix the zinnia sizes for the butterfly garden. I love the candy stripe also. I got a striped cosmo from Botanical Interests too. I got some red clover in a pollinator mix last year. I loved it and saved the seeds for this spring. I usually buy vegetable seeds, but I got some extra Christmas money and bought mostly flower seeds to add to my stash this year. So excited! From Katy, TX
I always wait for December to go away so I can start growing my seeds. I bought soo many since the beginning of last year and unfortunately 😞I will not because we are planning to move out of colorado.enjoy planting 🙏❤️
Baker Creek "Queen Lime Zinnia" - so psyched to see how those turn out here in 6b and I am a pansy/viola fan and got some of their viola seeds, too as well as their Apricot Cosmos! Also - you would look great in a shirt or mock turtleneck in the color of your wall!
Baker Creek has great seeds, lots of new ones and free postage. My only complaint is that there are not many seeds in the packet compared to other seed companies.I'm learning how to save seed.
I got some of the queeny lemon zinnia seeds and also the spun orange and sugar & spice marigolds. Excited to try them this summer. Also got the clover and I’m excited to grow that along with you in the fall. I’ve been thinking about where. Thanks for sharing.
Oh my goodness! I can tell how excited you are about these varieties and I’m excited for you and to see how they do. I’m looking forward to seeing not only what you plant but when. My budget is going to require using more seeds and less transplants. I love the Queen Lime zinnias and I’m hoping the seeds I collected will work. Love the color of the Early Rose celosia! Pinks are my favorite colors in the garden. I want to try ageratum this time. When will you plant those, or start indoors? I’m trying to use more plants that attract butterflies. Best of luck!
We all seem to have gotten most of what Amanda got from Baker Creek - how funny is that? I have my Queen Limey Zinnias all ready to go but I’m in Zone 6b (go Huskies) and I am itching to see these I think more than the apricot cosmos I got from Baker Creek.
@@SharkSandwich451 Small world. My daughter graduated from Northern Illinois. 🙂 She graduated in January several years ago. I had never seen snow piled so high! 😱 Definitely a different planting zone from north Texas. A lady gave me a start of the Queen Lime orange and the butterflies went nuts over them. What a joy to watch so I’m hoping to get them to grow again. Didn’t have much luck with cosmos last year but think I planted to late and we had a very hot, dry summer. Going to try again. They are so wispy and colorful. Good luck with your plantings!
@@marionnixon817 Oh no snow!!! Talk about extreme and yes I believe the several feet of snow piled high. Zinnias seems to thrive anywhere, tho. Every gardener throughout the country suffered in some way with all the long hot and dry summer weather. I am waiting to see if my 3 of my lace cap hydrangeas survived, 3 others are definitely headed for the compost heap along with 1//4 of an evergreen. Life hands you lemons so I know those spots are dry enough and the soil is garbage enough so I’m planting Mexican sunflowers. The apricot cosmos are going to be on trial this summer - I’m not planting the whole package, either. I’ll shoot for starting them indoors to get them started then plant them out. We all should circle back throughout the season to post on Amanda’s channel. I’m sure she’ll want to hear about all our violas, pansies, zinnias and cosmos as well.
I love that you are in my area. I have always just kinda stuck with what I always plant.. last year I started doing more different flowers and am in LOVE with new and different for me lol.. thank you for putting out so much info... I am trying to follow what and when you are planting to see how it does for me. I have always just had like the normal spring bulbs... but this year well in early November I planted all kinds of bulbs and see a bunch coming up...I am so excited 😁...and ready to do even more plantings.. my fave is any zinnia they are Beautiful and just give and give.. I really really wanna try that clover too...and I have never have hellebores I really want to try those as well. 😃 have a Blessed day
Love bakers creek seeds, I order a ton of them again this year; I started their violas and pansies this fall however they were 😮all killed by the December freeze. However, I’m going to restart them this week, I’m going to buy that Orange hat tomatoes!
@@shesamadgardener very very cute my plan is to grow a grouping of them in terra cotta pots, same as pictured; going to be so cute on my plant stand outside!
I just got my catalog in the mail. I'm so excited to read it. Don't forget to mention that there's a free catalog too. I grew Orange Hat last year and loved them. SO CUTE. I recently bought Baker Creek Honeywort Kiwi Blue to attract pollinators. I'm so excited about it. Thanks for another great video. 😊
I thought i was the only one who did not have a good experience with baker creek seeds . They have poor germination. I have been seeing more of the same complaints from others
Poor germination, booking a white supremacist to deliver a talk at one of their conferences (they cancelled him after people complained) and putting their adopted Asian children on predominately Asian veg seed packets and catalog spots. There are a lot of people who look at Baker Creek critically and use other suppliers.
Normally, buying a vegetable for its brilliant color is wise. I question however black tomatoes. They look too much like the fruits of deadly nightshade; the family in which tomatoes are classified. Also, this year I had a tomato sitting on the shelf that began to rot, but then the seeds inside sprouted. I put it in a glass dish with a cover and showed it to personnel during my visit to the doctor. Showed it to folks at the and the grocer, etc. to quiz them. Sprouts are normally so good for you, right? Not so tomato sprouts! The leaves are poisonous. Do not be tempted to eat them. The same is true with potato sprouts. Deadly. Just be aware.
@@shesamadgardener Just about any of them that do not virtue signal to get sales. I personally like Territorial, Johnny's, Harris, I will be trying Fedco this year because they have a lot of different varieties, plus a handful of smaller seed companies like Outside Pride which is one of my favorites. I look at customer service to be as important as prices and selection. If a company stands behind their products I stay with them.
Baker Creek is a national treasure.
+Kathryn Mettelka 💚💚💚
This was a really fun seed haul. I think I will try the white Marigold. It is really stunning. I am just embracing flowers and that one is lovely.
I grew the Kilimanjaro White last year. I’ve never been a marigold fan, but these won me over. All seeds germinated and the flowers were lovely and quite hardy. I grew them in my vegetable garden to help draw pollinators and fight pests. Will grow again this year!
Not a fan of Marigolds either and I only get them for my tomatoes if I’m planting them however I got 2-varieties this year to fill some sunny gaps along a very long border that becomes a weedy mess and I’m sick of “fixing” it each year with the “pulling weeds then mulch it” routine.
That’s good to hear. I feel he same way about marigolds. So I’m looking forward to this variety😊
Great seeds thanks for sharing! I love Baker Creek!
+Sunshine Country Chickens You are welcome! 💚
Just found your video and I immediately subscribed I have purchased from Baker creek for years I have a cut flower for you to try from them …Dara it’s a type of Queen Anne’s lace The flowers are so dainty and flat Purple fading to white They last a long time in the vase and add SO much! I also dry the blooms flat and use them in fall arrangements
+terri dee I love Dara! It has self seeded in my garden so I don’t need to plant it each year anymore.
I'm trying the " apricotta cosmos" for the first time. Really looking forward to the peachy pink color. The mahogany nasturtiums got me by the picture also!
+Gris Espino I feel silly for getting suckered in by the photo, but that color was unreal!
I have grown Candy Stripe zinnias from Baker Creek the two last summers. The flowers are pink/white, red/white and orange/yellow. The orange/yellow flowers were outstanding and I wish I had saved seeds from them. Also grew a lemony yellow pear-shaped cherry tomato (don't remember the name) - so prolific and the fruit didn't crack.
Super collection of seeds,
I love gardening,
I will be very happy to receive them
+Bhanu Boddu 💚💚💚
@@shesamadgardener 🙏😍👍🙏😍👍🙏😍👍
I love gardening dear
Love baker's creek! Just did a large order from them for 2024 season. Found lots of fun stuff to grow!
Awesome!
I had to get that Baker's Creek Rare Seed catalog. Very beautiful & worth it! Loving the studio. I didn't know that about the new seeds on the website. I just learned that Baker Creek is in my home state so I will be doing a tour and filming it sometime next year. Looking forward to that. Thanks for sharing.
+RB the Garden Nanny, LLC I would love to see the store in person!
The big catalog is available for sale at The Natural Grocer by the checkout stand.
+Pamela Spooner good to know!
I love Baker Creek. I love how they share the stories of theor heirlooms. I love hearing about how a variety was rediscovered after many years, or how "so & so" brought it from this country, etc.
I love Baker Creek, too! I also picked up the Queeny Lemon Peach zinnia because I need more yellow in my garden. Last year was my first year growing zinnia from seed, and it was the most satisfying experience. Queen Lime Red is my favorite so far. You reminded me that I want to pick up some of the larger flowering marigolds, so thank you for that!
I have french marigolds in my garden that reseed freely (but not annoyingly). They are beautiful, but the blooms are only about an inch wide.
+Jennifer Nash I love French marigolds and saw some from Burpee that were coral pink tones!
@@shesamadgardener I will have to look for those!
I just received my order from baker creek as well. I ordered several heirloom tomatoes and peppers this year. My freebie was spoon tomatoes. Its a rather interesting tomato. They grow like cherry tomatoes but are only the size of a pea... So its more ornamental than an edible. I plan on planting a couple just to see. This is my second year ordering from them.
+Patrick York I like the freebies but they definitely force me out of my box!
I also ordered the seed catalog and love baker creek seeds
+Roxana Nunez the new seed catalog is gorgeous!
I’m a big fan of Baker Creek as well.
+Jeanne T 💚💚💚
I am in zone 9A but I plant only what I can eat . I do plant some bee loving plants to help pollination. I have purchased from baker creek before and Hoss tools is awesome
+Hippie Girl I’m trying more veggies over to time but my obsession is flowers. Cucumbers are one of my favs!
I am so happy to have found your channel! I am in Mississippi zone 8a too! It will be so helpful to find another gardener in my zone to follow along with! Yeah! Also we bought like all the same seeds from Bakers! Those orange hat tomatoes weee too cute to pass up! 😊
+Brandy Welch I’m so excited about the orange hat tomatoes!!! 🧡🧡🧡
That nasturtium color looks very close to Pantone's color of the year, Viva Magenta. Look it up! Isn't that cool?
+Ramblin' Rose Cottage good point! I love the new color of the year!
I was super excited to get the big Baker Creek catalog this year. The free one was a lot smaller this year than in the past, and I know several people who print materials have mentioned the increased cost of printing this year- especially the full color pages like they do. I got the same ageratum mix this year as well. I have the queen blush and queen orange zinnias which I love. I like to mix the zinnia sizes for the butterfly garden. I love the candy stripe also. I got a striped cosmo from Botanical Interests too. I got some red clover in a pollinator mix last year. I loved it and saved the seeds for this spring. I usually buy vegetable seeds, but I got some extra Christmas money and bought mostly flower seeds to add to my stash this year. So excited! From Katy, TX
+Audrey Vann now you got me excited about the clover!!!
Woohoo!!!! Seed hauls are my favorite videos of all time! 🙌❤️🌱
+Nicole Smith Gardening SAME!!!
I always wait for December to go away so I can start growing my seeds. I bought soo many since the beginning of last year and unfortunately 😞I will not because we are planning to move out of colorado.enjoy planting 🙏❤️
+Roxana Nunez once you get settled I hope you can begin a new garden!
Baker Creek "Queen Lime Zinnia" - so psyched to see how those turn out here in 6b and I am a pansy/viola fan and got some of their viola seeds, too as well as their Apricot Cosmos! Also - you would look great in a shirt or mock turtleneck in the color of your wall!
+None Stated good point! I was so drawn to the color that I just couldn’t leave them behind!
+None Stated whoops … I relied to the wrong comment … love the queen lime series which is why I’m excited about the Queeny Lemon series!
Baker Creek has great seeds, lots of new ones and free postage. My only complaint is that there are not many seeds in the packet compared to other seed companies.I'm learning how to save seed.
Truthfully I havent paid attention to that but I will definitely look now.
I got some of the queeny lemon zinnia seeds and also the spun orange and sugar & spice marigolds. Excited to try them this summer. Also got the clover and I’m excited to grow that along with you in the fall. I’ve been thinking about where. Thanks for sharing.
+Karen Baker can’t wait to see how the clover does!
Oh my goodness! I can tell how excited you are about these varieties and I’m excited for you and to see how they do. I’m looking forward to seeing not only what you plant but when. My budget is going to require using more seeds and less transplants. I love the Queen Lime zinnias and I’m hoping the seeds I collected will work. Love the color of the Early Rose celosia! Pinks are my favorite colors in the garden. I want to try ageratum this time. When will you plant those, or start indoors? I’m trying to use more plants that attract butterflies. Best of luck!
We all seem to have gotten most of what Amanda got from Baker Creek - how funny is that? I have my Queen Limey Zinnias all ready to go but I’m in Zone 6b (go Huskies) and I am itching to see these I think more than the apricot cosmos I got from Baker Creek.
@@SharkSandwich451 Small world. My daughter graduated from Northern Illinois. 🙂 She graduated in January several years ago. I had never seen snow piled so high! 😱 Definitely a different planting zone from north Texas. A lady gave me a start of the Queen Lime orange and the butterflies went nuts over them. What a joy to watch so I’m hoping to get them to grow again. Didn’t have much luck with cosmos last year but think I planted to late and we had a very hot, dry summer. Going to try again. They are so wispy and colorful. Good luck with your plantings!
@@marionnixon817 Oh no snow!!! Talk about extreme and yes I believe the several feet of snow piled high. Zinnias seems to thrive anywhere, tho. Every gardener throughout the country suffered in some way with all the long hot and dry summer weather. I am waiting to see if my 3 of my lace cap hydrangeas survived, 3 others are definitely headed for the compost heap along with 1//4 of an evergreen. Life hands you lemons so I know those spots are dry enough and the soil is garbage enough so I’m planting Mexican sunflowers. The apricot cosmos are going to be on trial this summer - I’m not planting the whole package, either. I’ll shoot for starting them indoors to get them started then plant them out. We all should circle back throughout the season to post on Amanda’s channel. I’m sure she’ll want to hear about all our violas, pansies, zinnias and cosmos as well.
I love Baker Creek Seeds ! Great customer service, FREE SHIPPING💚💚. Beautiful web site- I don't need the catalog. Check them out.
+JUDY MILLER they are wonderful and their website is beautiful!
I love that you are in my area. I have always just kinda stuck with what I always plant.. last year I started doing more different flowers and am in LOVE with new and different for me lol.. thank you for putting out so much info... I am trying to follow what and when you are planting to see how it does for me. I have always just had like the normal spring bulbs... but this year well in early November I planted all kinds of bulbs and see a bunch coming up...I am so excited 😁...and ready to do even more plantings.. my fave is any zinnia they are Beautiful and just give and give.. I really really wanna try that clover too...and I have never have hellebores I really want to try those as well. 😃 have a Blessed day
+Lucky Liss you need to try hellebores! It does great in our area! Mine are starting to bloom right now!
@@shesamadgardener do you know where you can buy them or do you have to order then
Love bakers creek seeds, I order a ton of them again this year; I started their violas and pansies this fall however they were 😮all killed by the December freeze. However, I’m going to restart them this week, I’m going to buy that Orange hat tomatoes!
+From seed to Bloom media I’m so excited about the Orange Hat … it’s so freaking cute!
@@shesamadgardener very very cute my plan is to grow a grouping of them in terra cotta pots, same as pictured; going to be so cute on my plant stand outside!
I got Your catalog for spring, question, can I call my order in by phone?😉🐔🎄
+Bridgette Wood I’m not sure if they allow order by phone but it doesn’t hurt to call and ask!
Nice haul I had my eye on those ruffled petunias. But since they started charging Canadians shipping and duty I've been shopping elsewhere.
+Brampton Gardener bummer
I just got my catalog in the mail. I'm so excited to read it. Don't forget to mention that there's a free catalog too. I grew Orange Hat last year and loved them. SO CUTE. I recently bought Baker Creek Honeywort Kiwi Blue to attract pollinators. I'm so excited about it. Thanks for another great video. 😊
+Lila L darn it, I should have mentioned the free catalog 🤦♀️ thanks for the reminder!
I thought i was the only one who did not have a good experience with baker creek seeds . They have poor germination. I have been seeing more of the same complaints from others
+Juli Knapp I have no doubt that people have had issues. I haven’t had issues but I do mostly flowers and very few vegetables.
Poor germination, booking a white supremacist to deliver a talk at one of their conferences (they cancelled him after people complained) and putting their adopted Asian children on predominately Asian veg seed packets and catalog spots. There are a lot of people who look at Baker Creek critically and use other suppliers.
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Normally, buying a vegetable for its brilliant color is wise. I question however black tomatoes. They look too much like the fruits of deadly nightshade; the family in which tomatoes are classified. Also, this year I had a tomato sitting on the shelf that began to rot, but then the seeds inside sprouted. I put it in a glass dish with a cover and showed it to personnel during my visit to the doctor. Showed it to folks at the and the grocer, etc. to quiz them. Sprouts are normally so good for you, right? Not so tomato sprouts! The leaves are poisonous. Do not be tempted to eat them. The same is true with potato sprouts. Deadly. Just be aware.
+Heritage vr that’s good info! I’ll go do some research, thanks!
I used to love them. The catalog is beautiful but poor germination and can’t support their politics etc.
Glad to hear someone else saying this. I was sickened to have to see propaganda in a seed catalog!
Understandable, what seed companies do you prefer?
@@shesamadgardener Just about any of them that do not virtue signal to get sales. I personally like Territorial, Johnny's, Harris, I will be trying Fedco this year because they have a lot of different varieties, plus a handful of smaller seed companies like Outside Pride which is one of my favorites. I look at customer service to be as important as prices and selection. If a company stands behind their products I stay with them.
I’m going to check some of these out! 🙏