2025 - Seeds and stuff I've bought or acquired

Today I acquired a cutting from a hydrangea with white flowers tinted pink. Now potted up, hope it takes.
Seeds from helenium, Astrantia and candlearbra primula, now all sown.

Are your helenium and primula seeds from a packet or saved? If saved you could get some interesting mixes of colours.

Saved. Primulas were from a mix of colours and helenium looked very similar to waltraut but not sure as quite a few varieties look similar.

Yes, a lot of heleniums are quite similar in colour, they mostly seem to differ in flower size, petal shape, droopiness, height etc. rather than colour. I have a variety called Kupferzwerg which starts off more red then fades to coppery orange. Would've had Rubinzwerg too, but the plant I got put out bright yellow flowers instead. I'd really like Sahin's Early Flowerer, since it's supposed to flower earlier and for longer than other varieties. 

Helenium sounds like a good addition to my (proposed) perennial bed.