Introduction and Table of Contents

For many years Thompson & Morgan produced several series of booklets which offered the best advice on how to get the most from your seeds and various aspects on plant raising. These booklets were titled Growing from Seed.

The articles covered all aspects of raising seeds and nurturing seedlings together with in-depth articles on specific plant varieties. They became essential reading for beginners and enthusiasts alike.

We have selected some of the articles published which we feel may be of particular interest and these are reproduced here.

African Violets: the Doyen of House Plants

Agapanthus

Alstroemerias

American Sagebrushes

American Wildflowers

Andean Nymph - a pink mimulus

Aquilegias (Columbines)

Auriculas

Australian Annuals

Bellis Perennis (Daisies)

Black-Eyed Susan

Blue African Lilies

Breeding Delphiniums

Breeding Fuchsias: Part 1: From Seed

Breeding Fuchsias: Part 2: Hybridisation

Bromeliads from Seed

Butterflies in Soy Sauce

Cacti Raising

Campanulas

Chilean Bell Flower

Chilly Treatment for Peruvian Lilies

Collecting Seed

Conserving Annuals and Biennials

Cosmos

Cucumbers

Cycads: Living Fossils

Cyclamen for Indoors

Dahlias from Seed

Damping Off

Erythroniums

F1 Hybrid - What Is it?

F2 and Open Pollinated Varieties

From Obscurity to the Height of Fashion

Gentians

Geraniums

Germination to Pricking Out

Golden Impatiens - The Story

Growing Alpines From Seed: Part 1

Growing Alpines From Seed: Part 2

Growing Bananas From Seed

Growing Cyclamen From Seed

Growing Eucalyptus From Seed

Growing Ferns from Spores

Growing Foxgloves From Seed

Growing Fritillarias From Seed

Growing From Seed: From Packet to Soil

Growing Hardy Ferns from Spores

Growing Hardy Geraniums From Seed

Growing Lewisias From Seed

Growing Magnolias From Seed

Growing Meconopsis From Seed

Growing Proteas and Related Genera from Seed

Handling Small Seeds

Hardy Annuals: Part 1

Hardy Annuals: Part 2

Hardy Cyclamen

Hardy Spurges

Hellebores

Increasing your Violas and Violettas

Keeping Records of Seed Sowing

Lettuce - the Vital Part of any Salad

Lord Anson's Pea

Magnolias - the Root of the Problem

Mimulus from Seed to Seed in Sixty Days

New Guinea Impatiens

Old-fashioned Sweet Peas

Onions with Everything

Pansies are not Difficult to Grow from Seed

Parsley

Perennials for American Gardens

Petunias

Phygelius - their cultivation and propagation

Pinks: Evocation of the Past

Plants That Flower Once

Prickly but Nice

Propagators

Radishes

Raising Palms

Raising Primulas

Salad Leaves - a lot to be desired

Show Stoppers Twice Over

Sowing Seeds

Sowing in Open Ground

Sowing to Feed our Friends

Sturt's Desert Pea

Sweet Peas - Autumn Sown

Sweet Peas - Sowing and Germinating

Tall and Handsome

Techniques with Tiny Seed

Texas Bluebell

The Effect of Light on Germination and Seedlings

The Nervous Pea

The Scarlet Welsh Poppy

The Search for the Yellow Sweet Pea

Toad Lilies

Tomatoes

Treasure Hunt for Taste

Understanding Latin Names

Unique Poppy (Mother of Pearl)

Viability of Vegetables

Weaning Seedlings

Will the Real Mimosa Please Stand Up