The Little Gardener's Guide — flowers

Seed of the Month: October

Publicado por Amy Grice en

This month's seed is so pretty it has a colour named after it... the Cornflower!

Hunt through your seed collection and dig out your cornflower. The button at the bottom of this page will take you to our guide on sowing and caring for this lovely plant, but first, here are 5 fun facts...

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Growing Forget-Me-Not Colour Burst

Publicado por Amy Grice en

Our Forget Me Not mix will produces tons of lovely blue, white & pinky
flowers, looking great in flower beds or window boxes!

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Grow Your Mother's Day Bouquet

Publicado por Amy Grice en

The Mother's Day gift that will keep on giving! We'll show you how to turn your packet of seeds into a steady supply of classic English wildflowers.

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Growing Ladybird Flowers

Publicado por Amy Grice en

The ladybird flower is a type of poppy with bright red petals and big black splodges! It will also drop its own seeds into the ground, so you’ll see it come back year after year.

It’s a ‘hardy annual’, meaning you can sow it as late as Autumn and the seeds will survive the winter, giving you a head start on next year’s gardening and a much earlier bloom.

 

This guide will show you how to sow and care for your plant through it's lifecycle.

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Growing Wildflowers

Publicado por Amy Grice en

20% of all wildflower species are now listed as endangered. We continue to build on our green spaces, leaving fewer places for these beautiful plants to bloom. They need our help! See our guide to flower bombing to help liven up public spaces - but the best way to go about this is to lend a corner of your garden to these amazing flowers!

This guide will show you how to sow and care for your wildflowers!

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