What are your favourite plants to grow from seed?

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Looking for inspiration for cheaper gardening. Apart from the usual edibles, from seed I've grown sunflowers, nasturtiums, cosmos, and lupins, buddleia, foxgloves, golden feverfew. And various herbs.

Any other recommendations, especially perennials? Thanks!

This year I've grown aquilegia (no one if the spelling is right), snap dragons and lobelia from seed in pots plus, plus sunflowers and scattered love in a mist and poppies

No idea not no one

Thanks, some new ideas for me there

Asters are easily to grow and flower later in the year when other things are fading. Larkspur is easy and not widely grown.
This year I’ve grown Alyssum, it was extremely easy, didn’t need pricking out and now is in full flower.

Gaura
Angelica gigas
Monarda
Cosmos - so easy to grow

Ammi magus

Thanks all. I'll need to look some of these up!

This year I have grown rudbeckia, sunflowers, aquilegia, zinnias and parsley indoors most of which are now in the beds.
I also sewed nigella, stock, gypsophila, cosmos, forget me not and californian poppies straight in the ground.

I was surprised last year how beautiful nigella were.

This year I have grown tomatoes, sunflowers, lobelia, geraniums and pumpkins

I’ve grown Verbena Bonariensis from seed this year. Really easy and having just looked it up to add this link, realise I have a small fortune sitting in my greenhouse at the moment!
www.waitrosegarden.com/plants/_/verbena-bonariensis/classid.2000010879/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI64b6_omS-AIVxOvtCh3ObgdZEAQYBCABEgLCTvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Peas, courgettes, lamb’s lettuce, sweetcorn, poppies and agapanthus. The agapanthus seeds in particular have always performed so much better than plugs. Takes longer, generally don’t flower for the first year, but so much stronger thereafter.

Verbena, gaura, honesty, lavender, dahlia, echinacea, cosmos, osteospermum. All from seed, varying levels of success!

Linum is lovely as a direct sow.

Delospermum is very easy from seed.

I love dahlia Bishops Children, lovely purple black foliage and glowing flowers that just won't stop. And I just heap compost over the plants after cutting back, and they overwinter fine.

Also this year Tithonia, Zaluzianskiya and malva sylvestris have done well.

On top of things like cosmos and nasturtiums that I grow every year, try malva moschata alba - lovely white mallow flowers that grow well in shade as well as in sun, and which seeds itself gently around the garden afterwards. There is also a lovely pale pink version.

I also really like Anagallis monelli – it's a bit more work than the malva but it is such a beautiful true blue colour, and keeps going year after year.

And last year, I grew linaria Sweeties, which were really pretty – lots of different colours. The leftover seeds didn't germinate this year, possibly because they weren't stored in the fridge like my seeds usually are.

gaura, lupin, phlox, stocks, foxgloves, cosmos, delphiniums, cosmos, ammi, cosmos, snapdragons, echinacea, sweetpeas- all very easy. Some flower the following year

Artichoke grow really well from seed if you want something massive for your money and they are perennial. I grow them for my allotment but you can grow them for the giant silvery leaves and big purple flowers too in the flower border too. Also ladybirds love them.

Marigolds. They're so easy to grow and have a lovely pop of colour.

Cosmos
Phlox
Lavender
Dahlia bishops children and dwarf doubles
Common toadflax
Linaria Northern lights
Linseed
Calendula
Courgette
Beans - French, runner, broad, anellino de trento
Californian poppies
Verbena
Sunflower (trying Mongolian giant this year)
Aubrieta

in my garden I have many of these self sowing and I love to see what pops up new in the spring in random places! I just pull out any that I don't want. one large border would have looked after itself this year, a few perennials in it but mostly annuals that self sow - I just pulled out some to make space for veggies.

Watch out for the seedlings! No exaggeration, I have pulled out carpets of the things. I love them
but I would have a forest if I let them all grow, and my ginger tom would never reach his happy place in the catnip 😄