Ah ok, I'm not so good with flowers as I am veg but this year I have managed poppies, cornflowers, poached egg plants, love in a mist and nasturtium I also got a couple of packs of wild flowers that I just scattered.
With the ones I mentioned all I did was pre weed the soil, rake it over to loosen the soils. Water the soil then sprinkle the seeds and keep watered until germination happened
I chucked in california poppies and annual poppies in April and the annuals are just flowering now. The californias haven't flowered yet and not sure they will as it's been ages. I can't believe how slow they've been. Only other problem I found is that they are not growing where I scattered them. They have all crowded in one place around a peony bare root I planted. The peony started to shoot and is surrounded by a mess of poppies. I don't think I'd do the scattering method again...
Hi Tina. Forget me nots are easy ones and will carry on self seeding themselves for years, I have yellow Californian poppies and aquilegia that do the same, they can be a pain if you want a perfect garden but are definitely low maintenance.
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Ah ok, I'm not so good with flowers as I am veg but this year I have managed poppies, cornflowers, poached egg plants, love in a mist and nasturtium I also got a couple of packs of wild flowers that I just scattered.
Great thank you very much. So can you just throw the seeds and mix in with the soil and it goes from there? I seem to always mess things up.
With the ones I mentioned all I did was pre weed the soil, rake it over to loosen the soils. Water the soil then sprinkle the seeds and keep watered until germination happened
Thank you every so much Sophie much appreciated
Your welcome, hopefully there will be someone else along with more knowledge of flowers than me soon to help you
I chucked in california poppies and annual poppies in April and the annuals are just flowering now. The californias haven't flowered yet and not sure they will as it's been ages. I can't believe how slow they've been. Only other problem I found is that they are not growing where I scattered them. They have all crowded in one place around a peony bare root I planted. The peony started to shoot and is surrounded by a mess of poppies. I don't think I'd do the scattering method again...
Hi Tina. Forget me nots are easy ones and will carry on self seeding themselves for years, I have yellow Californian poppies and aquilegia that do the same, they can be a pain if you want a perfect garden but are definitely low maintenance.
Aquilegia, nasturtium, foxgloves & poppies have proved to be easy here, and follow Sophie's instructions for preparation and after care.