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Have you ever been scared to grow flower? I know that might seem silly but I definitely have been. I really wish I'd started growing this flower sooner and maybe after you watch this video you'll realize you might want to start growing it too. My name is Megan with Wild and Wonderful Farm and today I wanted to talk to you about Lysiampus. For a really long time I would read and watch videos about growing this flower and it seemed really intimidating. Everyone was talking about how difficult it was to germinate, how long it took to grow. You started in at least where I am started in January, February and you're not getting blooms until mid to late summer. So it's a huge commitment and it's definitely not the cheapest seed. You know if you don't want to make the huge time commitment of starting it from seed the plugs are expensive. So this past year in the 2025 growing season I decided that I was going to try Lysiampus and I didn't want to make a huge financial commitment so I said I'm going to grow it from seed. I'm going to get four different seed packets, try a couple different varieties and see if I can grow this and spoiler alert I can grow Lysiampus and what I also figured out is that I need a lot more Lysiampus going forward. Now another little bit of information that you probably need to know is I don't have a high tunnel. Everything I grow, I grow out in the elements. So I think that was maybe another factor that was making me think that oh maybe I can't grow good Lysiampus. I ended up starting my Lysiampus from seed in February and transplanting them out when it was still cool, letting them get established and then they went through a very hard growing season. We hardly had any rain. I really couldn't water them as much as I ordinarily would have and they still thrived. They had long, sturdy, beautiful stems. They were a dream to work with. Some flowers you feel like you're in a wrestling match trying to get them into a bouquet and Lysiampus has the perfect, perfect stem. I love them. So after having success with the varieties I grew this past season I am now growing a million more next year because now I want to move into trialing different varieties to see which ones give me the most blooms, the best stem length. You know I really want to move into let's try to find out which are the Lysiampus that need to be here on the farm. I'm starting a ton from seed. Now I did go ahead and order a few plugs because I found that I had it in the budget and I really am curious if there will be a difference in quality between the plugs and the ones I started from seed and if it makes that much of a difference for the price. Now obviously it's a huge time saver and you're saving supplies and grow rack space and everything like that but for me that's not really prohibitive so it wasn't a big factor but I am curious so I can't I you know I couldn't help myself. We'll see. Okay I've got my laptop here so we can go ahead and go through the different varieties. I will put them up on the screen so that you can look at them too. 90% of the Lysiampus that I'll be growing I got from Johnny's Seeds which I love Johnny's Seeds. I always get quality products from them. My only advice is do one order. The shipping is the shipping can be expensive so plan ahead write down every seed that you need to get this year and place it in one order so you're not spending extra on shipping. Okay here we go. So the first variety of Lysiampus that I'm going to talk about is the Arena series. Now the Arena 3 Red was one of the varieties that I grew this past year and it was the tallest of all the ones that I grew. It was a nice bright pink really stood out in arrangements and of course everybody thought they were roses which you know don't you know don't hate that. All the beauty of a rose with a much better vase life. So yes I'll definitely be growing those again. The other colors that I got in the Arena series I will be doing I mean I basically got every color but I'll be doing the gold Arena 3 Gold which looks like this beautiful buttery yellow. I can't wait to see that in arrangements. So we'll be growing the Arena 3 Apricot variety which is kind of like this pale peachy color which I think will look stunning in arrangements as well and this one might be the one I'm most looking forward to growing from this. It looks like the most perfect pale pink so delicate. I would want a bouquet completely made of this flower. It is so gorgeous so hopefully all of these grow. Also if you are wondering why there are numbers in the names that I'm talking about. Lisianthus similarly to Snapdragons are sorted into groups depending on what time in the season they bloom. So the lower numbers will bloom earlier in the season the higher numbers will grow will bloom later in the season. Well hopefully that clears that up for you. Okay so the next series that I will be growing that I want to share with you guys the Voyage varieties. I got lots of them. So these are the really beautiful romantic ruffly petal varieties. I think I grew I grew the Voyage Lavender this past year. So the Voyage 2 Lavender I grew this past year the blooms were beautiful but the stems were significantly shorter than the Arena. But because it was such a difficult growing season I did want to give the Voyage series another try this year to see if I was a little bit more kind to them would they produce longer steps. So we'll They are a more expensive seed so if they do not cut the mustard then they gotta go. So we'll give them another try but just because they are so gorgeous. The Lavender is pale icy purple absolutely love it. Next Voyage variety that I'm doing is the Voyage 2 First Love which is a lovely white with looks like a wash of light pink. I'm sure that will be stunning. Also I'm going to grow the Voyage 2 Pink Improved. Improved I'm not sure from what but and that looks like a slightly more saturated ruffly pink. Will I need to grow both of them going forward? Will I need to grow neither of them? We'll find out. I'm also growing the Voyage 2 Light Apricot. This looks absolutely gorgeous. I am can't wait to pair this with some of my Queen Lime Zinnias. I just I think that is going to be a standout but again we don't know we have to wait and see. That's why we're growing all these to try out some kind of basics. So we're going to do the Voyage 2 White and also the Voyage 2 Yellow too. There's a lot of numbers so we'll see. I am you're gonna see a lot of similar colors because the point of this year is to find out which ones perform the best. These won't I will not always grow every single one of these unless they all just hit it out of the park which I don't really see that happening but that's what experimentation is for. The next type that I am growing this year is the Lizadora Apricot 3 and this looks like a very pale apricot. Not quite as ruffly as the Voyage but I am curious to see what the stem length and flower count is going to be like on the next one. We have some Corelli Lysianthus which I might be butchering that name but I'm trying my best. I actually think I might have grown that last year I can't remember. So I'm going to be trying the Corelli 2 Pink which is got it's got like a little ruffle to it. It looks beautiful just like the other one so we'll see how that one goes and then also the Corelli Sugoi 3 White. Hopefully I didn't butcher that name either but that is going to be in the running for my favorite white lysianthus. We'll see we'll see the beefed up the other varieties and also there I think there's one more Corelli let me see. So Corelli 3 Light Pink this color we'll see. So again similar to the other light pink varieties that I will be growing but I want to see who is the best. Which is the best light pink? Which is the best apricot? Which is the best gold? Which is the best white? We are going to find that out and I really look forward to being able to share that information with you guys at the end of the season. If I can save you some time and money by doing a little legwork then that would be great. I also sourced a few see a few lysianthus seeds from Park Seeds. I have previously purchased a few seeds from this company. I bought petunia seeds from this company because they had some gorgeous petunia varieties. All of them were fantastic so I thought well you know I saw some lysianthus on their website so I wanted to give them a try. Okay now I am on the Park Seeds website and I see that they actually have added new varieties and I'm going to try not to get distracted. I purchased the Echo Mix lysianthus seeds. I've heard good things about the Echo Mix and I thought it would be easier for me not to choose a specific color and just get the and have that be my experiment with these. Now at the time they only had the three varieties for sale unless I'm completely mistaken are the were the Echo Mix and then the Cessna I think that's how you say the Cessna White and the Cessna Rose. Both of those kind of look pretty similar to the arena varieties for me but because again I am experimenting on if there is a variety that will just grow better for me here I wanted to give them all a try. I'm seeing another I might have to order one more packet we'll see. This is why you don't go to see you don't go to seed websites don't do it don't save your money only go if you already know what you're going to buy. Now I know what you guys are thinking what about the Rose Anne varieties and I'm not growing them this year. I grew Rose Anne Brown I think it was last year where I really loved it. I thought it was beautiful the brighter more vibrant blooms were more eye-catching and I she didn't sell she I would be I took her home with me and I got to enjoy her but that can't be the deciding factor on if I grow something or not because if I grew everything that I liked I would grow everything. Now I don't know if I want to completely give up on the Rose Anne varieties I have been eyeing the Rose Anne Black Pearl so stay tuned I may or may not. I think initially when I was placing my seed order I didn't buy it because the Black Pearl was the most expensive seed so I don't know maybe next year am I maybe 2027 will be the year I give the Rose Anne series another try. Okay last but not least let's talk about the plugs I ordered from Farmer Bailey. This hurt my wallet but because this is the year of the grand Lisianthus trial I wanted to get it done. I wanted to get the plugs versus the seeds compare variety to variety. Now the first type of the first set of plugs that I ordered may sound familiar I got the Lisianthus Echo Mix. You heard that right that is the exact same variety that I got as a packet of seeds from Park Seeds so I'm going to be able to compare them side by side. My inkling is they'll be the same but I you know we gotta we have to do our due diligence by growing all the flowers. And then I wanted to try something that I was not finding other places something a little bit more unique so I got some of the Lisianthus Machere or Match Machere you know what if I know how to say that it would be a freaking miracle. I'm going to say Machere because I maybe it's French I don't know but I got the the blue flash. Now I really thought that this was a unique form of the the Machere the the form of the Lisianthus bloom was very unique it almost has like almost a campanula type of bell shape so I wanted to try because I thought it might be really beautiful addition to bouquets so that'll be an experiment another one. The last plug variety that I got from Farmer Bailey's um I decided to go with the Celeb and I got it in the Neo Beige because I thought that this was kind of an interesting mix between um a pale yellow and an apricot color that I didn't feel that I had already purchased in my other seed packets. Oh that's so pretty I keep looking at the other varieties no you made your choice. All right friends that's it for today's video if you take anything away from this video other than you need to grow Lisianthus too is don't be afraid to grow. If there's a flower that you've been wanting to try try it be be smart about it don't sink a bunch of money into something that you're not quite sure about but don't be afraid to try because chances are you're better at growing than you know and it might be the perfect addition to your farm it might be the thing that makes you successful um it might be terrible. I am planning on making a video about flowers that I will not ever grow again but I wouldn't have known that they weren't a good fit for me if I didn't try and I'm so happy that I decided to give Lisianthus the chance because I think that they are going to be a very profitable valuable crop for my farm moving forward. All right guys that's it thank you for watching and let me know down in the comments do you grow Lisianthus have are you afraid like I was are you planning to grow Lisianthus in the 2026 growing season? I would love to know what you guys are up to and yeah so thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next one.