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What seeds are you growing?

rholden_82rholden_82 Posts: 80
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Hi all,
I am planning on planting some seeds over the next few weeks. The ones I have ready to go are:

Borage
Sunflowers
Love in the Mist
2nd sowing of sweet peas

Has anyone got any tips and any further suggestions of some nice flowers to grow? What is everyone else growing?

xx
Dolce far niente....
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  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,698
    One person's nice flower is another person's stinking arum that smells like a public lavatory on a hot day. But leaving aside my late grandfather's penchent for strange plants, you can find a million beautiful things to grow if you curl up with a seed catalogue for a few hours. Try agastache for the bees or nepeta which attracts insects in droves. Calendula looks beautiful with love-in-a-mist and both will self seed to give you years of blooms with little effort. Throw in some ornamental grasses for movement and sound. Opium poppies are beautiful and have the added benefit of producing large seed pods that can be dried. They too will self seed forever.

    I'm growing bananas and hope to start some more this year if the wretched things germinate. They go well with large leaved heucheras and figs for a jungle vibe.
  • PurpleRosePurpleRose Posts: 538
    I agree. It's all on taste.

    This year, I am throwing in a few veggies with my flowers. Brussel Sprout and Beatroot  to name a couple.

    I like flowers that attract bees, pollinators and insects. I have some wild flower mix which will be getting scattered in one area, along with poppies, corn flowers and borage.

    Other flowers I am planning to grow are Cosmos, love in a mist, nasturtiums, Verbena Bonariensis, sweet peas, sea holly and Marigolds. I have a great stack of seed packets so there will be plenty of others getting sown too.

    I have roses agapanthus and Oriental Poppies already in the ground so hopefully they will do there thing in time. I just plant round them.


  • Janie BJanie B Posts: 963
    Flower seeds for me this year: 

    - Sweet peas, salvia blue monday, various cosmos, panicum sparkling fountain, various nicotiana (all grown before) 

    - Ageratum, petunia, rudbeckia, sunflowers, carnations, echinacea, amaranthus (all new, often from recommendations from this forum!)
    Lincolnshire
  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    I planted my first trays of 2021 last weekend. Virtually all the marigolds have germinated :) The intention is to use them as a distraction/repellent around my fruit and veg.
    East Lancs
  • PurpleRosePurpleRose Posts: 538
    I am having a go at a few Veggies @Biglad and I have got some Marigold seeds which I harvested last year. Do they actually work as a repellent or do they help?

    Well done for them all germinating 😁
  • rholden_82rholden_82 Posts: 80
    Hi all,
    Sounds like a wonderful collection and has given me some inspiration :) I grew nasturtiums last year but they were decimated by black fly - maybe that's a good thing to protect the other plants. I know they are often used as sacrificial plants... Shame really as they are so pretty! 

    I started some eschscholzia in the autumn and they have over wintered well. I am going to plant them into some nice pots that I have purchased to hang over the top of the fence, lots of bright colours to make things cheeful. 

    I'm looking forward to Love in the Mist as there is a lovely patch of them up the road from us and I have never had them in the garden before. 

    Oh isn't it all full of such promise!!!!
    Dolce far niente....
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I went to sow some indoor seeds last week but I had left the half used compost bag outside. Compost soup😕
    I've laid some out in the trays and am waiting for it to dry out a bit. It looks a bit better this week.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited March 2021
    I understand that borage don't like to be moved much so good to plant them where they are to grow.

    The garden group are starting on dwarf sunflowers and sweetpeas this weekend.
  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    Antirrhinum, cosmos, sunflower, sweet pea, garlic, castor oil.......
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    @PurpleRose  I use Indian Marigolds and Basil at each end of my tomato rows, around the kitchen door garden etc.  in the hope that it repels mosquitoes.  If it says so on the label - well ..... 
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

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